Redrawing the US Obesity Landscape: Bias-Corrected Estimates of State-Specific Adult Obesity Prevalence

BACKGROUND: State-level estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underestimate the obesity epidemic because they use self-reported height and weight. We describe a novel bias-correction method and produce corrected state-level estimates of obesity and severe obesity. METHO...

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Autores principales: Ward, Zachary J., Long, Michael W., Resch, Stephen C., Gortmaker, Steven L., Cradock, Angie L., Giles, Catherine, Hsiao, Amber, Wang, Y. Claire
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26954566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150735

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26954566
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150735

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