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Agreement between self-reported and measured weight and height collected in general practice patients: a prospective study

BACKGROUND: Self-reported weight and height is frequently used to quantify overweight and obesity. It is however, associated with limitations such as bias and poor agreement, which may be a result of social desirability or difficulties with recall. Methods to reduce these biases would improve the ac...

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Autores principales: Yoong, Sze Lin, Carey, Mariko Leanne, D’Este, Catherine, Sanson-Fisher, Robert William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3599990/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23510189
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-38