TY - JOUR T1 - Proposed obesity body mass index correction for self-reported data may not be appropriate JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 863 LP - 864 DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.089060 VL - 63 IS - 10 AU - D Faeh AU - M Bopp Y1 - 2009/10/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/63/10/863.abstract N2 - The study published by Dauphinot et al1 in the February issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health compared self-reported and measured body mass index (BMI) in a sample of the general population of Geneva (Switzerland) and a smaller French sample. In order to account for underestimation of BMI arising from self-reports, the authors proposed a universal cut-off of 29.2 kg/m2 instead of 30 kg/m2 for the definition of obesity. In a previous study, we compared the obesity prevalence based … ER -