Updated prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in 11- to 17-year-old adolescents in Germany. Results from the telephone-based KiGGS Wave 1 after correction for bias in self-reports

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Brettschneidera, Anna Kristin ^a   Schaffrath Rosario, Angelika ^a   Kuhnert, Ronny ^a   Schmidt, Steffen ^b   Wiegand, Susanna ^c   Ellert, Ute ^a   Kurth, Bärbel Maria ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescents; KiGGS Wave 1; Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL BIAS; TELEPHONE;

ADOLESCENT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 84946549903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2467-x     Document Type: Article

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