Obesity Epidemiology
Body mass index of healthy men is compared with healthy women in U.S.
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 2nd, 2006
A researcher in the United States conducted a study "to compare the distributions of body mass index (BMI) in relatively healthy nonsmoking men and women in the United States using cross-sectional national survey data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III)."
"In total, 11,404 nonsmoking men (n=4,894) and women (n=6,510), ages 20 years and above, drawn from a representative population sample were involved," said Katherine M. Flegal at the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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