Open AccessAre driver’s licenses issued within 3 years of cancer diagnosis a valid source of BMI data?
Author(s) -
Michael Brumm,
Michele M. West,
Charles F. Lynch,
Brian J. Smith
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
ccc. cancer causes and control/ccc, 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.