Obesity and plasma lipids in the Charleston Heart Study cohort over a 25-year interval. Body mass index and fat patterning as correlates of lipids and hypertension in an elderly, biracial population. Sheppa CM, Stevens J, Philbrick JP, Canady,M. Effect of a class IV hurricane on emergency department operations. Body size perceptions and eating attitudes in elderly men.
Black women have less abdominal fat than white women of the same relative weight.
Demonstration that bone mineral density of the lumbar spine, trochanter, and femoral neck is higher in black than in white young men. The ARIC study. Reliability of a food frequency questionnaire by race, gender, age and education. Stevens J, Alexandrov AA, Smirnova SG, Deev AD, Gershunskaya Y B, Davis CE, Thomas R. Comparison of attitudes and behaviors related to nutrition, body size, dieting and hunger in Russian, African American and white American adolescents. Prediction equations do not eliminate systematic error in self-reported Body Mass Index.