Validity of self-reported height and weight in 4808 EPIC–Oxford participants
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- 1 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Public Health Nutrition
- Vol. 5 (4) , 561-565
- https://doi.org/10.1079/phn2001322
Abstract
Objective: To assess the validity of self-reported height and weight by comparison with measured height and weight in a sample of middle-aged men and women, and to determine the extent of misclassification of body mass index (BMI) arising from differences between self-reported and measured values.Keywords
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