- ►rsmjournals.com M Ezzati, H Martin, S Skjold, SV Hoorn, CJL … - JRSM, 2006 - jrsm.rsmjournals.com Objectives: To quantify population-level bias in self-reported weight and height
as a function of age, sex, and the mode of self-report, and to estimate unbiased
trends in national and state level obesity in the USA. Cited by 97 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 20 versions
EV Villanueva - BMC public health, 2001 - biomedcentral.com Background Individuals are often asked about common physical at- tributes such
as weight and height in lieu of actual meas- urements. In some surveys and large
epidemiologic studies, self-reported measurements of these character- ... Cited by 124 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 5 versions
JL Engstrom, SA Paterson, A Doherty, M … - Journal of midwifery & women's health, 2003 - Elsevier Height and weight are two of the most commonly used anthropometric measurements
in clinical practice and research. Self-reported height and weight measurement
is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, and non-invasive method of collecting ... Cited by 84 - Related articles - All 5 versions
R Sturm - Archives of Internal Medicine, 2003 - archinte.highwire.org Background We know that Americans are increasingly becoming overweight, but we
do not know whether this trend applies to clinically severe obesity (>100 lbs
[45 kg] overweight), which is believed to have different causes than ... Cited by 270 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
AH Mokdad, VS Bales, KJ Greenlund, GA … - ETHNICITY AND DISEASE, 2003 - ishib.org The burden of chronic diseases is increasing worldwide. Surveillance of
behavioral risk fac- tors is a crucial element for prevention and control of
chronic diseases. Adequate surveil- lance data will provide the basis for ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 3 versions
D Lakdawalla, T Philipson - Economics and Human Biology, 2009 - Elsevier This paper presents a dynamic theory of body weight and develops its
implications. We argue that technological change has induced weight growth by
making home- and market-production more sedentary and by lowering food ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - All 2 versions
- ►ahajournals.org CJL Murray, SC Kulkarni, M Ezzati - Circulation, 2006 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— We performed a multinomial logistic regression analysis
to estimate the effect of individual- and community-level factors on the
likelihood of a death being certified as 1 of 3 ill-defined clusters ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - All 7 versions
- ►ahajournals.org M Ezzati, S Oza, G Danaei, CJL Murray - Circulation, 2008 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— We estimated the relationship between actual
SBP/uncontrolled hypertension and self-reported hypertension, use of blood
pressure medication, and a set of health system and sociodemographic ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - All 6 versions
AJ Plantinga, S Bernell - Journal of Regional Science, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, VOL. 47, NO. 5, 2007, pp. 857–879 ... THE
ASSOCIATION BETWEEN URBAN SPRAWL AND OBESITY: IS IT A TWO-WAY STREET? ...
Andrew J. Plantinga Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 232B ... Cited by 22 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
