Trial reportJournal of women's health (2002)2011
Self-reported versus measured height and weight in Hispanic and non-Hispanic menopausal women.
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- Telehealth versus self-directed lifestyle intervention to promote healthy blood pressure: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2021Article
- A Comparison of Common Health Indicators From Two Surveys of Latinos in the Bronx, New York.Hispanic health care international : the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses · 2020Article
- Accuracy of self-reported weight in the Women's Health Initiative.Public health nutrition · 2019Observational
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- Self-Reported vs. Measured Height, Weight, and BMI in Young Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Food addiction among Spanish-speaking Latino/as residing in the United States.Eating behaviors · 2018Article
- Bias in Hazard Ratios Arising From Misclassification According to Self-Reported Weight and Height in Observational Studies of Body Mass Index and Mortality.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Accuracy of Self-reported Weight in Hispanic/Latino Adults of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2017Article
- Comparative effects of the restriction method in two large observational studies of body mass index and mortality among adults.European journal of clinical investigation · 2017Article
- Recommendations for cardiovascular disease research with lesbian, gay and bisexual adults.Journal of clinical nursing · 2016Article
- Adiposity and blood pressure among 55 000 relatively lean rural adults in southwest of China.Journal of human hypertension · 2015Article
- Body mass index correlates negatively with white matter integrity in the fornix and corpus callosum: a diffusion tensor imaging study.Human brain mapping · 2013Article
- Misreporting Weight and Height Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Men.American journal of men's healthArticle
- Spinal cord normalization in multiple sclerosis.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of NeuroimagingArticle
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Abstract
backgroundHeight and weight information is commonly used in clinical trials and in making therapeutic decisions in medical practice. In both settings, the data are often obtained by self-report. If erroneous, this practice could lead to inaccuracies in estimating renal function and medication doses or to inaccurate outcomes of research studies. Previous publications have reported lack of reliability of self-reported weight and height in the general population but have not addressed age-specific and ethnicity-specific subgroups in the U.S. population. The inaccuracy of self-reported weight and height could be particularly significant in times of considerable changes in body weight, such as at menopause, which is often associated with weight gain.
methodsWe assessed the validity of self-reported height and weight in 428 women within the first 5 years of menopause, 70.6% of whom were Hispanic.
resultsParticipants overestimated their height by 2.2±3.5 cm (mean±standard deviation [SD]) and underestimated their weight by 1.5±2.9 kg. As a group, based on self-reported measures, 33.3% were misclassified with respect to body mass index (BMI) category, and the difference between measured BMI and self-reported BMI was similar between Hispanic white and non-Hispanic white women, positively related to measured weight, and inversely related to measured height, years from menopause, and multiple parity.
conclusionsFrom the public health perspective, inaccurate self-report could lead to a considerable underestimation of the current obesity prevalence rates. In our study population, the prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m(2)) was 6.3% based on self-reported values and 18% based on measured height and weight, representing a 3-fold underestimation.
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