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A study by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that over a ten-year period, between 1995 and 2005, reports of weight discrimination had gone up by two-thirds.
A study by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that over a 10-year period, between 1995 and 2005, reports of weight discrimination had gone up by two-thirds.
Overweight/obesity was based on the body mass index (BMI), calculated through the parents' reports of weight and height, and using specific cut-off points for Spain.
The use of vildagliptin in combination with metformin has been reported to be well tolerated, with no reports of weight gain or severe hypoglycemia [ 35].
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While there was substantial agreement between self-reported and measured BMI values, there was small but statistically significant under-reporting of weight and thus self-reported BMI.
The authors acknowledge that the study depends on self-reports of weight and eating habits, which are not always reliable, and that even though they controlled for many variables, the study was observational, showing only an association between breakfast eating habits and body mass, not a causal relationship.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2010, we find that self-reports of weight offer robust evidence of social desirability bias.
Using self-reported weight and height data may raise concerns about systematic measurement error (in particular, systematic under-reporting of weight and/or systematic over-reporting of height), which could bias the results.
In the Keep It Off randomized clinical trial we are evaluating this phone-based intervention that focuses on key weight-loss maintenance behaviors followed by continued self-monitoring, reporting of weight, feedback, and outreach in members of a Minnesota managed-care organization.
To assess the accuracy of self- and parent-report of weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) in children between 8 and 12 years of age and to determine whether self- or parent-report should be preferred for preadolescents' subjective measures.
For example, the fully adjusted (equivalent of model 3) association of maternal and paternal BMI with offspring BMI in the N = 10410 participants with maternal report of weight and height for both parents were 0.18 (0.22, 0.22) and 0.16 (0.19, 0.19), respectively.
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