作者
Zachary J Ward, Sara N Bleich, Angie L Cradock, Jessica L Barrett, Catherine M Giles, Chasmine Flax, Michael W Long, Steven L Gortmaker
发表日期
2019/12/19
期刊
New England Journal of Medicine
卷号
381
期号
25
页码范围
2440-2450
出版商
Massachusetts Medical Society
简介
Background
Although the national obesity epidemic has been well documented, less is known about obesity at the U.S. state level. Current estimates are based on body measures reported by persons themselves that underestimate the prevalence of obesity, especially severe obesity.
Methods
We developed methods to correct for self-reporting bias and to estimate state-specific and demographic subgroup–specific trends and projections of the prevalence of categories of body-mass index (BMI). BMI data reported by 6,264,226 adults (18 years of age or older) who participated in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey (1993–1994 and 1999–2016) were obtained and corrected for quantile-specific self-reporting bias with the use of measured data from 57,131 adults who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. We fitted multinomial regressions for each state and …
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