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Follow-up data of height, weight and BMI were compared to the Swiss reference population using z-scores.
For example, the clinical data of height and weight were missing for 25 patients.
In addition, data of height and heart rate were not included.
One important limitation of this study is the time lag between the telephone interview where self-reported data of height and weight were collected and the physical examination of MoMo, where measurements were obtained.
As many other studies have found [ 4, 5, 7- 9, 11- 15], prevalence of overweight/obesity and obesity among these pre-school and pre-adolescent children based on parent-reported data of height and weight was significantly higher than prevalence based on actual measurements.
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Collection of data on height and weight from the GPs is currently on-going.
This research provides additional data on height of the lingula and morphometric data for its location considering aspects such as shape of the lingula, gender, and race, information that had not been reported in the literature to date.
We also were unable to assess body mass index as a measure of nutritional status at the initiation of therapy, a potential confounder for post-initiation weight gain, due to the lack of data on height in the clinical record.
The reliability of the data on height and weight is also an important issue.
Bland Altman plots from the current study and those of Howe et al 15 suggest that routine data collection of height and weight shows little evidence of bias when compared to research data.
The use of self-reported data on height and weight to calculate BMI may have resulted in an underestimation of BMI.
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