The obesity epidemic and changes in self-report biases in BMI

Obesity

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 856-860

  Hattori, Aiko ^a   Sturm, Roland ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878314032     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20313     Document Type: Article

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