Flegal, Katherine M., Graubard, Barry I., Williamson, David F., Gail, Mitchell H.
Studies of body weight and mortality sometimes exclude participants who have ever smoked or who may have had preexisting illness at baseline. This exclusionary approach was applied to data from the...
Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (2007)
Cole, Tim J., Flegal, Katherine M., Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A.
OBJECTIVE: To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years. DESIGN: International survey of six large nationally representative cross...
Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (2007)
Cole, Tim J., Flegal, Katherine M., Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A.
OBJECTIVE: To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years. DESIGN: International survey of six large nationally representative cross...
Overweight in children: definitions and interpretation (2006)
Flegal, Katherine M., Tabak, Carolyn J., Ogden, Cynthia L.
Studies in a variety of countries have shown increases in the prevalence of overweight among children in recent years. These increases have given rise to concern about children's health and...
Overweight in children: definitions and interpretation (2006)
Flegal, Katherine M., Tabak, Carolyn J., Ogden, Cynthia L.
Studies in a variety of countries have shown increases in the prevalence of overweight among children in recent years. These increases have given rise to concern about children's health and...
Overweight in children: definitions and interpretation (2006)
Flegal, Katherine M., Tabak, Carolyn J., Ogden, Cynthia L.
Studies in a variety of countries have shown increases in the prevalence of overweight among children in recent years. These increases have given rise to concern about children's health and...
Mean Body Weight, Height, and Body Mass Index, United States 1960–2002 (2004)
Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph. D. Cheryl, D. Fryar, D. Carroll, Katherine M. Flegal, ...
This report presents trends in national estimates of mean weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) from the National Health Examination and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys...
Methods of Calculating Deaths Attributable to Obesity (2004)
Flegal, Katherine M., Graubard, Barry I., Williamson, David F.
Previously reported estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States have been based on a method that only partially adjusts for confounding and does not allow for effect...
Assessing obesity: classification and epidemiology (1997)
Seidell, Jacob C, Flegal, Katherine M
Obesity is generalty defined as a body mqss index (BMI) of 30 kg/m2 and higher. Overweight is defined as a BMI between 25 and 30 kg/m2. The prevalence varies considerably between countries, and...
Reproductive History and Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Women (1994)
Ness, Roberta B., Schotland, Helena M., Flegal, Katherine M., Shofer, Frances S.
Differential Misclassification Arising from Nondifferential Errors in Exposure Measurement (1991)
Flegal, Katherine M., Keyl, Penelope M., Nieto, F. Javier
Misclassification into exposure categories formed from a continuous variable arises from measurement error in the continuous variable. Examples and mathematical results are presented to show that if...
PARTITIONING MACRONUTRIENT INTAKE ESTIMATES FROM A FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE (1990)
FLEGAL, KATHERINE M., LARKIN, FRANCES A.
In the 1984–1985 University of Michigan Food Frequency Study, 228 black and white men and women ages 24–51 years completed 16 days of food records over the course of a year and then completed a...
COUNTING CALORIES: PARTITIONING ENERGY INTAKE ESTIMATES FROM A FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE (1988)
FLEGAL, KATHERINE M., LARKIN, FRANCES A., METZNER, HELEN L., THOMPSON, FRANCES E., GUIRE, KENNETH E.
Differences in energy estimates between a food frequency questionnaire and a multi-day dietary record can be partitioned into distinct components due to differences in reported frequency of...
THE EFFECTS OF EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION ON ESTIMATES OF RELATWE RISK (1986)
FLEGAL, KATHERINE M., BROWNIE, CAVELL, HAAS, JERE
In epidemiologic studies, Individuals may be misclassified with respect to exposure to a nsk factor for disease. Such misclassification Causes the relative risk of disease associated with the...
Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey
Cole, Tim J, Bellizzi, Mary C, Flegal, Katherine M, Dietz, William H
The association of blood lead level and cancer mortality among whites in the United States.
Jemal, Ahmedin, Graubard, Barry I, Devesa, Susan S, Flegal, Katherine M
Lead is classified as a possible carcinogen in humans. We studied the relationship of blood lead level and all cancer mortality in the general population of the United States using data from the...
Estimating Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States
Flegal, Katherine. M., Williamson, David F., Pamuk, Elsie R., Rosenberg, Harry M.
Estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States rely on estimates from epidemiological cohorts of the relative risk of mortality associated with obesity. However, these relative risk...
Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey
Cole, Tim J, Bellizzi, Mary C, Flegal, Katherine M, Dietz, William H
The association of blood lead level and cancer mortality among whites in the United States.
Jemal, Ahmedin, Graubard, Barry I, Devesa, Susan S, Flegal, Katherine M
Lead is classified as a possible carcinogen in humans. We studied the relationship of blood lead level and all cancer mortality in the general population of the United States using data from the...
Estimating Deaths Attributable to Obesity in the United States
Flegal, Katherine. M., Williamson, David F., Pamuk, Elsie R., Rosenberg, Harry M.
Estimates of deaths attributable to obesity in the United States rely on estimates from epidemiological cohorts of the relative risk of mortality associated with obesity. However, these relative risk...
Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey
Cole, Tim J, Flegal, Katherine M, Nicholls, Dasha, Jackson, Alan A
Objective To determine cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents, based on body mass index at age 18 years.
Childhood Overweight and Family Income
Freedman, David S., Ogden, Cynthia L., Flegal, Katherine M., Kettel Khan, Laura, Serdula, Mary K., Dietz, William H.
USING ADJUSTED RELATIVE RISKS TO CALCULATE ATTRIBUTABLE FRACTIONS
Flegal, Katherine M., Williamson, David F., Graubard, Barry I.
The Effects of Changes in Smoking Prevalence on Obesity Prevalence in the United States
Objectives. Reduction of cigarette smoking is an important public health goal. However, lower smoking prevalence may be associated with increased obesity prevalence. I sought to estimate the effect...