Katherine M. Flegal

Stanford University — United States

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(123), Birth, Development, and Health(54), Obesity and Health Practices(52), Nutritional Studies and Diet(45), Nutrition and Health in Aging(31)

Publications237 total

Redefining Obesity—Too Much Is Never Enough
JAMA Network Open·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
The Author Responds
Epidemiology·2024
Obesity in Children Seems to Be More Common in Non-White Racial Groups. What Racial Groups Are at Particular Risk, and What Considerations Are Important for Each?
2024
Obesity in Children Seems to Be Common. Are the Current Definitions of Obesity Accurate, and What Are They Based On?
2024
Use and Misuse of BMI Categories
The AMA Journal of Ethic·2023· 40 citedOpen Access
Re. Assessing Uncontrolled Confounding in Associations of Being Overweight With All-Cause Mortality
Epidemiology·2022· 1 cited
Excess mortality estimates may be too high
EClinicalMedicine·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
A Female Career in Research
Annual Review of Nutrition·2022· 1 cited
Response to: “A rigorous evaluation of a method to adjust BMI for self‐report bias”
Obesity·2022
How body size became a disease
2021· 6 cited
Evaluation of a suggested novel method to adjust BMI calculated from self‐reported weight and height for measurement error
Obesity·2021· 12 citedOpen Access
Fairness in scientific debate
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases·2021· 5 cited
BMI and obesity trends in Chinese national survey data
The Lancet·2021· 29 cited
The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account
Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases·2021· 31 citedOpen Access
The perils of using predicted values in place of observed covariates: an example of predicted values of body composition and mortality risk
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition·2021· 5 citedOpen Access
The Impact of Differences in Methodology and Population Characteristics on the Prevalence of Hypertension in US Adults in 1976-1980 and 1999-2002
UNC Libraries·2020Open Access
Re: Sustained Weight Loss and Risk of Breast Cancer in Women ≥50 Years: A Pooled Analysis of Prospective Data
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute·2020· 2 citedOpen Access
Use and reporting of Bland–Altman analyses in studies of self-reported versus measured weight and height
International Journal of Obesity·2019· 80 citedOpen Access
Issue Information
Obesity·2019Open Access
Comparisons of Self‐Reported and Measured Height and Weight, BMI, and Obesity Prevalence from National Surveys: 1999‐2016
Obesity·2019· 136 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Cynthia L. Ogden(26), Margaret D. Carroll(14), Robert J. Kuczmarski(8), Brian K. Kit(7), Brett Kissela(6), Cheryl D. Fryar(6), Clifford L. Johnson(5), Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones(5), Karen L. Furie(5), Nancy Haase(5), Virginia J. Howard(5), Steven J. Kittner(5), James B. Meigs(5), Véronique L. Roger(5), Wayne D. Rosamond(5), Paul D. Sorlie(5), Julia Steinberger(5), Thomas Thom(5), Richard P. Troiano(5), Lester R. Curtin(4)