Misreporting and misclassification: implications for socioeconomic disparities in body-mass index and obesity

Body-mass index (BMI) has become the standard proxy for obesity in social science research. This study deals with the potential problems related to, first, relying on self-reported weight and height to calculate BMI (misreporting), and, second, the concern that BMI is a deficient measure of body fat...

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Autores principales: Ljungvall, Åsa, Gerdtham, Ulf G., Lindblad, Ulf
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-013-0545-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4286627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24363175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10198-013-0545-5

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