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Validity of self-reported height and weight in 4808 EPIC-Oxford participants
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Objective: To assess the validity of self-reported height and weight by comparison with measured height and weight in a sample of middle-aged men and women, and to determine the extent of misclassification of body mass index (BMI) arising from differences between self-reported and measured values. Design: Analysis of self-reported and measured height and weight data from participants in the Oxford cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-Oxford). Subjec...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1079/PHN2001322
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Europe Against Programme of the Commission of the European Communities
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Imperial Cancer Research Fund
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Public Health Nutrition Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 561-565
- Publication date:
- 2002-01-01
- DOI:
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1475-2727
- ISSN:
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1368-9800
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- English
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- ora:4453
- Deposit date:
- 2010-11-17
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- E A Spencer et al
- Copyright date:
- 2002
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Spencer, E. A. et al. (2002). 'Validity of self-reported height and weight in 4808 EPIC-Oxford participants', Public Health Nutrition 5(4), 561-565. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PHN].
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