Open AccessEvaluation of Bias in Estimates of Early Childhood Obesity From Parent-Reported Heights and Weights
Author(s) -
Michael S. Rendall,
Margaret M. Weden,
Christopher Lau,
Peter Brownell,
Zafar Nazarov,
Meenakshi Maria Fernandes
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302001
Subject(s) - percentile , obesity , body mass index , medicine , national health and nutrition examination survey , demography , childhood obesity , information bias , selection bias , statistics , environmental health , overweight , population , mathematics , pathology , sociology
We evaluated bias in estimated obesity prevalence owing to error in parental reporting. We also evaluated bias mitigation through application of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's biologically implausible value (BIV) cutoffs.