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- Published on: 27 April 2016
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- Published on: 27 April 2016Body mass index threshold for obesity using self-reported data among Australian population.Show More
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Under-reporting of weight and over-reporting of height are problems in estimating the prevalence of obesity. [1] However, many studies rely on self-report methods. Dauphinot et al. suggested using BMI≥ 29.2 kg/m2 for the definition of obesity based on self-report height and weight in Swiss population. [2]
Using data from North West Adelaide Health Study in Australia, [3, 4] we as...
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We are grateful to Faeh and al. for having applied the reduced obesity threshold that we proposed on their data. Our purpose was not to define an universal cut-off of 29.2 kg/m2 as a new definition of obesity, but rather to demonstrate that using the simplest correction method i.e. reducing the obesity threshold, was effective in estimating the true obesity prevalence in our population samples, rather than usi...
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None declared. - Published on: 27 April 2016Proposed obesity body mass index correction for self-reported data may not be appropriateShow More
Proposed obesity body mass index correction for self-reported data may not be appropriate
David Faeh and Matthias Bopp
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland
The study published by Dauphinot et al. in the February issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health compared self-reported and measured BMI in a...
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