Validity of self-reported height and weight for measuring prevalence of obesity

OBJECTIVES: To examine the validity of self-reported body mass index (BMI) in estimating the prevalence of obesity in the Canadian population, and to suggest a model for predicting actual BMI from self-reported data. METHODS: This analysis is based on 1131 participants with both self-reported and me...

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Autores principales: Akhtar-Danesh, Noori, Dehghan, Mahshid, Merchant, Anwar T, Rainey, James A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Open Medicine Publications, Inc. 2008
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3091607/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21602953

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