Proposed obesity body mass index correction for self-reported data may not be appropriate: Figure 1

The study published by Dauphinot et al 1 in the February issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health compared self-reported and measured body mass index (BMI) in a sample of the general population of Geneva (Switzerland) and a smaller French sample. In order to account for underestimation of BMI arising from self-reports, the authors proposed a universal cut-off of 29.2 kg/m2 instead of 30 kg/m2 for the definition of obesity. In a previous study, we compared the obesity prevalence based …