Weight Misperceptions and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Female Body Mass Index

This paper investigated weight misperceptions as determinants of racial/ethnic disparities in body mass index (BMI) among adolescent females using data from the National Survey of Youth 1997. Compared to their white counterparts, higher proportions of black and Hispanic adolescent females underperce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Krauss, Ramona C., Powell, Lisa M., Wada, Roy
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3371348/