Correlates of BMI misreporting among apparently healthy individuals: The ATTICA study

Obesity

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 894-901

  Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Pitsavos, Christos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Hypertension; Misreporting; Self reported

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33846885013     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.103     Document Type: Article

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