Open AccessReported versus measured body weight and height of 4-year-old children and the prevalence of overweight
Author(s) -
Salome Scholtens,
Bert Brunekreef,
Tommy L.S. Visscher,
H. A. Smit,
Marjan Kerkhof,
J. C. de Jongste,
Jorrit Gerritsen,
A. H. Wijga
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckl253
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , body mass index , obesity , pediatrics , demography , incidence (geometry) , body weight , asthma , sociology , physics , optics
In adults, body weight tends to be underestimated when based on self-reported data. Whether this discrepancy between measured and reported data exists in healthy young children is unclear. We studied whether parental reported body weight and height of 4-year-old children corresponded with measured body weight and height. In addition, we studied the determinants and the consequences of differences between reported and measured data.
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