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List of works by Katherine Flegal

2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: methods and development

scientific article (publication date: May 2002)

A Female Career in Research

scholarly article

A Generalized Mantel-Haenszel Analysis of the Regression of Blood Pressure on Blood Lead Using NHANES II Data

scientific article published in 1988

A generalized Mantel-Haenszel analysis of the regression of blood pressure on blood lead using NHANES II data

scientific article

A meta-analysis but not a systematic review: an evaluation of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration

scientific article published on 20 April 2017

A meta-analysis of individual participant data constructed to align with prior expert views: comments on Bhupathiraju et al

scientific article

A paradox or a challenge?

scientific article published in May 2019

A prospective study of childbearing and 10-year weight gain in US white women 25 to 45 years of age

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

A review of prevalence and trends in childhood obesity in the United States

article

Agreement between two dietary methods in reported intake of beer, wine and liquor

scientific article published in March 1991

Agreement between two dietary methods in the measurement of alcohol consumption

scientific article published on 01 September 1990

Aim for a healthy weight: what is the target?

scientific article published in February 2001

Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular risk factors

scientific article

Alcohol, coronary heart disease, and total mortality

scientific article published on 01 January 1985

Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults: United States, 2011-2014.

scientific article

Anthropometric reference data for children and adults: United States, 2003–2006.

scientific article

Assessing obesity: classification and epidemiology ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1997

Assessing the nation's diet: limitations of the food frequency questionnaire

scientific article published in August 1992

Assessing the utility of glycated hemoglobin

scientific article published on 01 September 1998

Association of all-cause mortality with overweight and obesity using standard body mass index categories: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article

Association of body fat percentage with lipid concentrations in children and adolescents: United States, 1999-2004.

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Bias in Hazard Ratios Arising From Misclassification According to Self-Reported Weight and Height in Observational Studies of Body Mass Index and Mortality

scientific article published in January 2018

Bias in calculation of attributable fractions using relative risks from nonsmokers only

scientific article published on November 2014

Birth weight and childhood size in a national sample of 6- to 11-year-old children

scientific article published in January 1995

Blood Lead and Other Metal Biomarkers as Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Mortality

scientific article

Blood lead levels and death from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: results from the NHANES III mortality study

scientific article

Blood lead levels in the US population. Phase 1 of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988 to 1991)

scientific article

Blood lipid levels in type 2 diabetes. What are the effects of diet?

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

Body composition data for individuals 8 years of age and older: U.S. population, 1999-2004 ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2010

Body composition estimates from NHANES III bioelectrical impedance data

article

Body mass index and obesity-related metabolic disorders in Taiwanese and US whites and blacks: implications for definitions of overweight and obesity for Asians

scientific article

Body mass index categories in observational studies of weight and risk of death

scientific article published on 3 June 2014

Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey

scientific article published on 25 June 2007

Body mass index of healthy men compared with healthy women in the United States

scientific article published in February 2006

Body-mass index and all-cause mortality

scientific article published in June 2017

CDC growth charts: United States

scientific article (publication date: 8 June 2000)

Cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity

scientific article

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 Growth Charts for the United States: Improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics Version

article

Changes in terminology for childhood overweight and obesity

scientific article published on June 25, 2010

Changes in the distribution of body mass index of adults and children in the US population

scholarly article published July 2000

Characterizing extreme values of body mass index-for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

Childhood obesity: are we all speaking the same language?

scientific article

Childhood overweight and family income.

scientific article published on 3 May 2007

Commentary: The epidemic of obesity—what's in a name?

Commentary: is there a best index of weight for height?

scientific article

Commentary: the quest for weight standards

scientific article published on 21 July 2010

Comments on 'Choice of time scale and its effect on significance of predictors in longitudinal studies' by Michael J. Pencina, Martin G. Larson and Ralph B. D'Agostino, Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26:1343-1359.

scientific article published on April 2009

Comparative effects of the restriction method in two large observational studies of body mass index and mortality among adults

scientific article

Comparing strategies to estimate the association of obesity with mortality via a Markov model

article

Comparison of Diabetes Diagnostic Categories in the U.S. Population According to 1997 American Diabetes Association and 1980–1985 World Health Organization Diagnostic Criteria ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Comparison of estimated nutrient intakes by food frequency and dietary records in adults

scientific article published in February 1989

Comparison of the Prevalence of Shortness, Underweight, and Overweight among US Children Aged 0 to 59 Months by Using the CDC 2000 and the WHO 2006 Growth Charts

Comparisons of Self-Reported and Measured Height and Weight, BMI, and Obesity Prevalence from National Surveys: 1999-2016

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults

scientific article published on 30 December 2008

Construction of LMS parameters for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts

scientific article published in February 2013

Correcting bias, or biased corrections?

scientific article

Counting calories: partitioning energy intake estimates from a food frequency questionnaire

scientific article published in October 1988

Criteria for definition of overweight in transition: background and recommendations for the United States

Curve smoothing and transformations in the development of growth curves

scientific article

Curve smoothing and transformations in the development of growth curves

article

Defining obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiologic approaches

scientific article

Detecting obesity based on skinfold thicknesses

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Development of bioelectrical impedance analysis prediction equations for body composition with the use of a multicomponent model for use in epidemiologic surveys

scientific article

Diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and elevated HbA1c in U.S. adolescents: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article

Dietary selenium and cadmium interrelationships in growing swine

scientific article published on 01 June 1980

Differential misclassification arising from nondifferential errors in exposure measurement

scientific article published in November 1991

Distribution of HbA(1c) levels for children and young adults in the U.S.: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article

Déjà vu all over again: the re-analysis of epidemiologic data

scientific article

Effects of trimming weight-for-height data on growth-chart percentiles

scientific article

Epidemiologic aspects of overweight and obesity in the United States

scientific article

Epidemiologic trends in overweight and obesity

scientific article published on December 2003

Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

scientific article

Estimates of excess deaths associated with body mass index and other anthropometric variables

scientific article published on 03 February 2009

Estimating deaths attributable to obesity in the United States

article

Estimating population attributable fractions to quantify the health burden of obesity

scientific article

Estimating the impact of obesity

article

Estimation of attributable number of deaths and standard errors from simple and complex sampled cohorts

article by Barry I. Graubard et al published 2007 in Statistics in Medicine

Evaluating epidemiologic evidence of the effects of food and nutrient exposures

scientific article

Evaluation of a suggested novel method to adjust BMI calculated from self-reported weight and height for measurement error

Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries

scientific article

Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity: An Evaluation of Potential Bias

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Excess deaths associated with obesity: cause and effect

Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity

scientific article

Excess mortality estimates may be too high

Exposure of the US population to environmental tobacco smoke: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1991.

scientific article

Fairness in scientific debate

scholarly article

Female editorship is an important indicator of gender imbalance

scientific article published in January 2010

Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis

article

Flegal et al. reply

scientific article published on 6 November 2014

Fraction of premature deaths in the Canadian population that were attributable to overweight and obesity

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Gravidity, blood pressure, and hypertension among white women in the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics--2008 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

scientific article

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2006 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

scientific article

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2007 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

scientific article

Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

scientific article

High adiposity and high body mass index-for-age in US children and adolescents overall and by race-ethnic group

scientific article

High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006

scientific article

High body mass index, overweight, and obesity in children: Definitions, terminology, and interpretation

Higher fasting insulin but lower fasting C-peptide levels in African Americans in the US population

scientific article

Impact of Smoking and Preexisting Illness on Estimates of the Fractions of Deaths Associated with Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity in the US Population

article

Impact of increased overweight on the projected prevalence of osteoporosis in older women

article by A. C. Looker et al published 20 October 2006 in Osteoporosis International

In Reply

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Incident CHD and excess body weight in the US population

scientific article published in June 2010

Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Interpreting trends estimated from national survey data

scientific article

Is there a sex bias in choosing editors? Epidemiology journals as an example

scientific article published in July 1998

Issues in the long-term evaluation of diet in longitudinal studies

scientific article

Mean body weight, height, and body mass index, United States 1960-2002.

scientific article published in October 2004

Metabolically healthy overweight and obesity

scientific article

Methods of calculating deaths attributable to obesity

scientific article published in August 2004

Modeling maternal weight and height in studies of pregnancy outcome among Hispanic women

scientific article published in August 1993

Multiple imputation of missing dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry data in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

scientific article

Musculoskeletal disorders: time trends, comorbid conditions, self-assessed health status, and associated activity limitations.

scientific article published in January 1993

Number of pregnancies and the subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease

scientific article published on 01 May 1993

Obesity among adults in the United States--no statistically significant change since 2003-2004

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Obesity and socioeconomic status in adults: United States, 2005-2008.

scientific article

Obesity and socioeconomic status in children and adolescents: United States, 2005-2008

scientific article published on December 1, 2010

Obesity paradox in end-stage kidney disease patients

scientific article published on 9 October 2013

Obesity, overweight, hypertension, and high blood cholesterol: the importance of age

scientific article published on 01 December 2000

Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960–1994 ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 January 1998

Overweight children and adolescents: description, epidemiology, and demographics

scientific article

Overweight in children: definitions and interpretation

Overweight prevalence among youth in the United States: why so many different numbers?

scientific article published on 01 March 1999

Overweight prevalence and trends for children and adolescents. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1963 to 1991

article

Overweight, mortality and survival

scientific article published on September 2013

Overweight, obesity, and all-cause mortality--reply

scientific article published in April 2013

Partitioning macronutrient intake estimates from a food frequency questionnaire

scientific article published on 01 June 1990

Prediction Equations Do Not Eliminate Systematic Error in Self‐Reported Body Mass Index ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Prescription medication use among normal weight, overweight, and obese adults, United States, 2005-2008.

scientific article published on 18 November 2011

Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000

scientific article

Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008

scientific article (publication date: 20 January 2010)

Prevalence and trends in overweight among US children and adolescents, 1999-2000

scientific article published on 9 October 2002

Prevalence and trends in overweight in Mexican-american adults and children

scientific article published in July 2004

Prevalence of High Body Mass Index in US Children and Adolescents, 2007-2008

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2011-2014.

scientific article published on November 2015

Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in Body Mass Index Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2010 ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012

scientific article (publication date: 26 February 2014)

Prevalence of diabetes and impaired fasting glucose in adults in the U.S. population: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002.

scientific article

Prevalence of diabetes in Mexican Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1982-1984

scientific article published on 01 July 1991

Prevalence of diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and impaired glucose tolerance in U.S. adults. The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994.

scientific article

Prevalence of obesity among adults: United States, 2011-2012.

scientific article published in October 2013

Prevalence of obesity among older adults in the United States, 2007-2010.

scientific article published in September 2012

Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010

scientific article (publication date: February 2012)

Prevalence of obesity in the United States

article by Cynthia L Ogden et al published 1 July 2014 in Journal of the American Medical Association

Prevalence of obesity in the United States, 2009-2010

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

Prevalence of overweight among preschool children in the United States, 1971 through 1994.

scientific article published in April 1997

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among US children, adolescents, and adults, 1999-2002.

scientific article

Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004

scientific article

Prevalence of overweight in US children: comparison of US growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with other reference values for body mass index

scientific article

Prevalence of pre-obesity and obesity in urban adult Mexicans in comparison with other large surveys

scientific article published on March 2000

Racial and ethnic differences in glycemic control of adults with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published in March 1999

Ratio of actual to predicted weight as an alternative to a power-type weight-height index (Benn index).

scientific article published on April 1990

Re: "Costs and statistical power associated with five methods of collecting occupation exposure information for population-based case-control studies"

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Re: Sustained weight loss and risk of breast cancer in women ≥50 years: a pooled analysis of prospective data

scientific article published on 26 February 2020

Reply to TJ Cole

Reproductive history and coronary heart disease risk in women

scientific article

Response to "Biased Corrections or Biased About Corrections"

scientific article

Response to: “A rigorous evaluation of a method to adjust BMI for self-report bias”

scholarly article

Reverse causation and illness-related weight loss in observational studies of body weight and mortality

scientific article

Secular Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Body Mass Index in U.S. Adults

Secular trends in body mass in the United States, 1960-1980.

scientific article published in November 1988

Secular trends in body mass index and skinfold thickness with socioeconomic factors in young adult men.

scientific article published in September 1988

Secular trends in body mass index and skinfold thickness with socioeconomic factors in young adult women ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1988

Secular trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors according to body mass index in US adults

scientific article

Serum selenium levels in the US population: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994.

scientific article published on January 2003

Simple examples should not be extrapolated to the US population

article by Katherine Flegal et al published 15 January 2008 in International Journal of Obesity

Smoothed percentage body fat percentiles for U.S. children and adolescents, 1999-2004

scientific article published on November 9, 2011

Sources of differences in estimates of obesity-associated deaths from first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) hazard ratios

scientific article

The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Growth Charts: Several Insights after 8 Years

article published in 2010

The Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity in Canada, Mexico and the United States

article

The Influence of Smoking Cessation on the Prevalence of Overweight in the United States

scientific article

The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term That Should Be Abandoned

scientific article published in April 2018

The association of blood lead level and cancer mortality among whites in the United States

scientific article

The conundrum of smoking cessation and weight gain ⬇️

scientific article published on January 28, 2012

The decline in blood lead levels in the United States. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 1994)

The effects of age categorization on estimates of overweight prevalence for children

article

The effects of changes in smoking prevalence on obesity prevalence in the United States

scholarly article by Katherine Flegal published August 2007 in American Journal of Public Health

The effects of exposure misclassification on estimates of relative risk

scientific article published on 01 April 1986

The epidemiology of obesity

scholarly article

The impact of differences in methodology and population characteristics on the prevalence of hypertension in US adults in 1976-1980 and 1999-2002.

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

The obesity epidemic in children and adults: current evidence and research issues

scientific article

The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account

scientific article published in July 2021

The perils of using predicted values in place of observed covariates: an example of predicted values of body composition and mortality risk

The predicted effects of chronic obesity in middle age on medicare costs and mortality

scientific article published on June 2010

The relative contributions of lean tissue mass and fat mass to bone density in young women

scientific article published in October 2005

Trends in Obesity Among Adults in the United States, 2005 to 2014.

scientific article

Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1988-1994 Through 2013-2014.

scientific article published on June 2016

Trends in body weight and overweight in the U.S. population

scientific article published on April 1996

Use and reporting of Bland-Altman analyses in studies of self-reported versus measured weight and height

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Use of GHb (HbA1c) in screening for undiagnosed diabetes in the U.S. population

scientific article published in February 2000

Use of Projection Analyses and Obesity Trends-Reply.

scientific article

Using adjusted relative risks to calculate attributable fractions

Varying Body Mass Index Cutoff Points to Describe Overweight Prevalence Among U. S. Adults: NHANES III (1988 to 1994) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Waist circumference of healthy men and women in the United States

Weight and mortality

scientific article published on 27 December 2005

Weight-associated deaths in the United States

scientific article published in November 2007

Weight-for-stature compared with body mass index-for-age growth charts for the United States from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

scientific article published in April 2002

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