A comparison of measured versus self-reported anthropometrics for assessing obesity in adults: a literature review

M Maukonen, S Männistö… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims: Up-to-date information on the accuracy between different anthropometric data
collection methods is vital for the reliability of anthropometric data. A previous review on this …

Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries

TIM Olds, C Maher, SHI Zumin… - … journal of pediatric …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Until quite recently, there has been a widespread belief in the popular media and scientific
literature that the prevalence of childhood obesity is rapidly increasing. However, high …

Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease …

M Ng, T Fleming, M Robinson, B Thomson, N Graetz… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background In 2010, overweight and obesity were estimated to cause 3· 4 million deaths, 3·
9% of years of life lost, and 3· 8% of disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) worldwide. The …

[HTML][HTML] Validation of self-reported height and weight in a large, nationwide cohort of US adults

JM Hodge, R Shah, ML McCullough, SM Gapstur… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Background Height and weight are commonly used metrics in epidemiologic studies to
calculate body mass index. Large cohort studies generally assess height and weight by self …

[图书][B] Flexible imputation of missing data

S Van Buuren - 2018 - books.google.com
Missing data pose challenges to real-life data analysis. Simple ad-hoc fixes, like deletion or
mean imputation, only work under highly restrictive conditions, which are often not met in …

Epidemiology of Achilles tendon ruptures in the United States: athletic and nonathletic injuries from 2012 to 2016

NJ Lemme, NY Li, SF DeFroda… - … journal of sports …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Achilles tendon (AT) ruptures are one of the most common tendon ruptures, but
there have been no studies investigating these injuries in the United States (US) using data …

Forecasting future trends in obesity across Europe: the value of improving surveillance

E Pineda, LM Sanchez-Romero, M Brown, A Jaccard… - Obesity facts, 2018 - karger.com
Objective: To project the prevalence of obesity across the WHO European region and
examine whether the WHO target of halting obesity at 2010 levels by 2025 is achievable …

Preschoolers' delay of gratification predicts their body mass 30 years later

TR Schlam, NL Wilson, Y Shoda, W Mischel… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether preschoolers' performance on a delay of gratification task
would predict their body mass index (BMI) 30 years later. STUDY DESIGN: In the late …

Adult obesity complications: challenges and clinical impact

S Ansari, H Haboubi… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The complications associated with adult obesity are overwhelming national healthcare
systems. No country has yet implemented a successful population-level strategy to reverse …

Periodontal complications with obesity

JE Suvan, N Finer, F D'Aiuto - Periodontology 2000, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this paper was to identify and summarize current evidence describing
periodontal complications associated with obesity. Electronic searches supplemented with …