References: Wang, Y., Beydoun, M.A., Liang, L., Caballero, B., Kumanyika, S.K., Will all Americans become overweight or obese? Estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic (2008) Obesity, 16 (10), pp. 2323-2330;
Wang, Y., Beydoun, M.A., The obesity epidemic in the United States-gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: A systematic review and metaregression analysis (2007) Epidemiologic Reviews, 29 (1), pp. 6-28;
Ogden, C.L., Carroll, M.D., Kit, B.K., Flegal, K.M., Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012 (2014) The Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, 311 (8), pp. 806-814;
Beydoun, M.A., Wang, Y., Pathways linking socioeconomic status to obesity through depression and lifestyle factors among young US adults (2010) Journal of Affective Disorders, 123 (1-3), pp. 52-63;
Flegal, K.M., Carroll, M.D., Ogden, C.L., Curtin, L.R., Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008 (2010) The Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, 303 (3), pp. 235-241;
Romero, C.X., Romero, T.E., Shlay, J.C., Ogden, L.G., Dabelea, D., Changing trends in the prevalence and disparities of obesity and other cardiovascular disease risk factors in three racial/ethnic groups of USA adults (2012) Advances in Preventive Medicine, , Article ID 172423, 8 pages 2012;
(2010) US Department of Health and Human Services, HealthyPeople Gov, Disparities, , http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/about/disparitiesAbout.aspx;
(2012) Ethnic and Ethnic Minority Populations, , https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/, US Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC);
Colby, S.L., Ortman, J.M., (2014) Projections of the Size and Composition of the U.S. Population: 2014 to 2060, , Current PopulationReports P25-1143 U.S. Census Bureau, Washington DC, USA;
(2015) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, Atlanta, Ga, USA, , http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/DNPAO/index.html, Nutrition Physical Activity Obesity Data Trends Maps U.S. Department ofHealth and Human Services;
Lee, H., Obesity among California adults: Ethnic and ethnic differences (2006) Public Policy Institute of California, , http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R906HLR.pdf;
Lopez, R.P., Neighborhood risk factors for obesity (2007) Obesity, 15 (8), pp. 2111-2119;
Ludwig, J., Sanbonmatsu, L., Gennetian, L., Neighborhoods, obesity, and diabetes-A randomized social experiment (2011) The New England Journal OfMedicine, 365 (16), pp. 1509-1519;
Papas, M.A., Alberg, A.J., Ewing, R., Helzlsouer, K.J., Gary, T.L., Klassen, A.C., The built environment and obesity (2007) Epidemiologic Reviews, 29 (1), pp. 129-143;
Matthews, C.E., George, S.M., Moore, S.C., Amount of time spent in sedentary behaviors and cause-specific mortality in US adults (2012) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 95 (2), pp. 437-445;
California health interview survey 2011-2012 (2011) Adult PublicData File, , http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/chis/design/Documents/chis2011-2012method-12014-06-09.pdf, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, Calif, USA 2014;
Kessler, R.C., Andrews, G., Colpe, L.J., Short screening scales to monitor population prevalences and trends in nonspecific psychological distress (2002) Psychological Medicine, 32 (6), pp. 959-976;
Hsu, W.C., Araneta, M.R.G., Kanaya, A.M., Chiang, J.L., Fujimoto, W., BMI cut points to identify at-risk asian americans for type 2 diabetes screening (2015) Diabetes Care, 38 (1), pp. 150-158;
Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies (2004) The Lancet, 363 (9403), pp. 157-163. , WHO expert consultation;
(2000) The Asia-Pacific Perspective: Redefining Obesity and Its Treatment, , http://www.wpro.who.int/nutrition/documents/docs/Redefiningobesity.pdf, WHO;
Park, Y., Wang, S., Kitahara, C.M., Body mass index and risk of death in Asian Americans (2014) American Journal of Public Health, 104 (3), pp. 520-525;
Bleich, S.N., Thorpe, R.J., Jr., Sharif-Harris, H., Fesahazion, R., LaVeist, T.A., Social context explains race disparities in obesity among women (2010) Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64 (5), pp. 465-469;
Trotter, L.J., Bowen, D.J., Beresford, S.A.A., Testing for racial/ethnic differences in the association between childhood socioeconomic position and adult adiposity (2010) American Journal of Public Health, 100 (6), pp. 1088-1094;
Ziol-Guest, K.M., Duncan, G.J., Kalil, A., Early childhood poverty and adult bodymass index (2009) American Journal of Public Health, 99 (3), pp. 527-532;
Zhang, Q., Wang, Y., Trends in the association between obesity and socioeconomic status in U.S. Adults: 1971 to 2000 (2004) Obesity Research, 12 (10), pp. 1622-1632;
Wang, Y., Zhang, Q., Are American children and adolescents of low socioeconomic status at increased risk of obesity? Changes in the association between overweight and family income between 1971 and 2002 (2006) The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 84 (4), pp. 707-716;
Prevalence of obesity among adults with arthritis-United States, 2003-2009 (2011) Morbidity and MortalityWeekly Report, 60 (16), pp. 509-513. , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);
Masuko, K., Rheumatoid cachexia revisited: A metabolic comorbidity in rheumatoid arthritis (2014) Frontiers in Nutrition, 1. , article 20;
Metsios, G.S., Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, A., Panoulas, V.F., New resting energy expenditure prediction equations for patients with rheumatoid arthritis (2008) Rheumatology, 47 (4), pp. 500-506;
Roubenoff, R., Roubenoff, R.A., Cannon, J.G., Rheumatoid cachexia: Cytokine-driven hypermetabolism accompanying reduced body cell mass in chronic inflammation (1994) Journal of Clinical Investigation, 93 (6), pp. 2379-2386;
Felson, D.T., Weight and osteoarthritis (1996) The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63, pp. 430S-432S. , supplement;
Sowers, M.R., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C.A., The evolving role of obesity in knee osteoarthritis (2010) Current Opinion in Rheumatology, 22 (5), pp. 533-537;
Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, A., Metsios, G.S., Koutedakis, Y., Redefining overweight and obesity in rheumatoid arthritis patients (2007) Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 66 (10), pp. 1316-1321;
Arden, N., Nevitt, M.C., Osteoarthritis: Epidemiology (2006) Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology, 20 (1), pp. 3-25;
Felson, D.T., An update on the pathogenesis and epidemiology of osteoarthritis (2004) Radiologic Clinics of North America, 42 (1), pp. 1-9;
Toivanen, A.T., Heliövaara, M., Impivaara, O., Obesity, physically demanding work and traumatic knee injury are major risk factors for knee osteoarthritis-A population-based study with a follow-up of 22 years (2010) Rheumatology, 49 (2), pp. 308-314;
Division of Health Interview Statistics, Data from the National Health Interview Survey., , http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/mental/FigmentphyUS2008.htm, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics Statistical analysis by the CDC, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation;
Prevalence of doctor-diagnosed arthritis and arthritis-Attributable activity limitation-United States, 2007-2009 (2010) Morbidity and MortalityWeekly Report, 59, pp. 1261-1265. , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);
National Diabetes Statistics Report 2014, , http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/statsreport14/national-diabetes-report-web.pdf, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC);
Roger, V.L., Go, A.S., Lloyd-Jones, D.M., Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2012 update: A report from the American Heart Association (2012) Circulation, 125 (1), pp. 188-197;
Goodpaster, B.H., DeLany, J.P., Otto, A.D., Effects of diet and physical activity interventions on weight loss and cardiometabolic risk factors in severely obese adults: A randomized trial (2010) Journal of the AmericanMedical Association, 304 (16), pp. 1795-1802;
Quatromoni, P.A., Pencina, M., Cobain, M.R., Jacques, P.F., D'Agostino, R.B., Dietary quality predicts adult weight gain: Findings from the framingham offspring study (2006) Obesity, 14 (8), pp. 1383-1391;
Beard, H.A., Ghatrif, M.A.L., Samper-Ternent, R., Gerst, K., Markides, K.S., Trends in diabetes prevalence and diabetesrelated complications in older Mexican Americans from 1993-1994 to 2004-2005 (2009) Diabetes Care, 32 (12), pp. 2212-2217;
Paulhus, D.L., Vazire, S., The self-report method (2007) Handbook of Research Methods in Personality, pp. 224-239. , R. W. Robins, R. C. Fraley, and R. F. Krueger, Eds. Guilford Press, New York, NY, USA;
Hattori, A., Sturm, R., The obesity epidemic and changes in self-report biases in BMI (2013) Obesity, 21 (4), pp. 856-860;
Kaplan, R.M., Chambers, D.A., Glasgow, R.E., Big data and large sample size: A cautionary note on the potential for bias (2014) Clinical and Translational Science, 7 (4), pp. 342-346;
Richmond, T.K., Thurston, I., Sonneville, K., Milliren, C.E., Walls, C.E., Austin, S.B., Racial/ethnic differences in accuracy of body mass index reporting in a diverse cohort of young adults (2015) International Journal of Obesity, 39 (3), pp. 546-548
