RT Journal Article
T1 Body silhouettes as a tool to reflect obesity in the past
A1 Sánchez Ramos, José Luis
A1 Lonnebotn, Marianne
A1 Svanes, Cecilie
A1 Igland, Jannicke
AB Life course data on obesity may enrich the quality of epidemiologic studies analysing healthconsequences of obesity. However, achieving such data may require substantial resources. We investigated the use of body silhouettes in adults as a tool to reflect obesity in thepast. We used large population-based samples to analyse to what extent self-reported bodysilhouettes correlated with the previously measured (9±23 years) body mass index (BMI)from both measured (European Community Respiratory Health Survey, N = 3 041) and selfreported(Respiratory Health In Northern Europe study, N = 3 410) height and weight. Wecalculated Spearman correlation between BMI and body silhouettes and ROC-curve analysesfor identifying obesity (BMI  30) at ages 30 and 45 years. Spearman correlationsbetween measured BMI age 30 (±2y) or 45 (±2y) and body silhouettes in women and menwere between 0.62±0.66 and correlations for self-reported BMI were between 0.58±0.70.The area under the curve for identification of obesity at age 30 using body silhouettes vs previouslymeasured BMI at age 30 (±2y) was 0.92 (95% CI 0.87, 0.97) and 0.85 (95% CI 0.75,0.95) in women and men, respectively; for previously self-reported BMI, 0.92 (95% CI 0.88,0.95) and 0.90 (95% CI 0.85, 0.96). Our study suggests that body silhouettes are a usefulepidemiological tool, enabling retrospective differentiation of obesity and non-obesity inadult women and men.
PB Public Library of Science
SN 1932-6203
YR 2018
FD 2018-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16032
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16032
LA eng
NO Sánchez Ramos, José Luis, Lønnebotn M, Svanes C, Igland J, Franklin KA, Accordini S, Benediktsdoattir B, et al. (2018).  Body silhouettes as a tool to reflect obesity. in the past. PLoS ONE 13(4) ESSN: 1932-6203. https:// doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195697
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026