State-level estimates of childhood obesity prevalence in the United States corrected for report bias

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1523-1528

  Long, M W ^a   Ward, Z J ^b   Resch, S C ^b   Cradock, A L ^b   Wang, Y C ^c   Giles, C M ^b   Gortmaker, S L ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARKANSAS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUTRITION; PARENT; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL BIAS; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARDS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; PARENTS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; POLICY MAKING; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984620372     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2016.130     Document Type: Article

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