Are driver’s licenses issued within 3 years of cancer diagnosis a valid source of BMI data? | Zendy

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Are driver’s licenses issued within 3 years of cancer diagnosis a valid source of BMI data?

Author(s) -

Michael C. Brumm,

Michele West,

Charles F. Lynch,

Bruce A. Smith

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

cancer causes and control

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.073

H-Index - 134

eISSN - 1573-7225

pISSN - 0957-5243

DOI - 10.1007/s10552-020-01318-9

Subject(s) - medicine , body mass index , intraclass correlation , overweight , demography , confidence interval , obesity , cancer registry , cancer , population , cohen's kappa , statistics , environmental health , psychometrics , mathematics , clinical psychology , sociology

Overweight and obesity are risk factors for several cancers; however, population-based cancer registries do not routinely collect data on body mass index (BMI). This study evaluated the utility of supplementing cancer registry data with BMI data derived from driver's license records.

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