Impact of instrument error on the estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity in population-based surveys

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Biehl, Anna ^a,b   Hovengen, Ragnhild ^a   Meyer, Haakon E ^a,c   Hjelmesæth, Jøran ^b   Meisfjord, Jørgen ^a   Grøholt, Else Karin ^a   Roelants, Mathieu ^d,e   Strand, Bjørn Heine ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b VESTFOLD HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Calibration; Epidemiology; Instrument error; Obesity; Overweight; Weights and measures

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALIBRATION; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORWAY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CALIBRATION; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NORWAY; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873937936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-146     Document Type: Article

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