Fig 1.
Body silhouettes for a) men and b) women introduced in the ECRHS III and RHINE III study.
a) men, tick off your silhouette at ages: current, 8 years, voice break, 30 years, 45 years and 55 years. b) women, tick off your silhouette at ages: current, 8 years, menarche, 30 years, 45 years and menopause.
Fig 2.
Flow chart, study population with participation in the RHINE III or ECRHS III study, reporting body silhouette at age 30 or 45, and with self-reported or objectively measured height and weight at age 30(±2y) or 45(±2y) in RHINE II or ECRHS I or II.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population reporting body silhouettes in ECRHS III and in RHINE III.
Fig 3.
Box-and-whisker plots showing the distribution of measured BMI by figural scale (reported in ECRHS III), according to sex, in European adults aged 30(±2)years or 45(±2) years in ECRHS II,: A) n 172, BMI range 16.7–40.3; no reporting on figure #8; B) n 296, BMI range 17.0–52.5, no reporting on figure #9; C) n 138, BMI range 18.4–37.9, no reporting on figure #9; D) n 362, BMI range 18.3–39.1. The bottom and top edge of the box represent the first and third quartiles (interquartile range); the line within the box represents the median; the ends of the bottom and top whiskers represent the upper and lower adjacent values; and the dots represent outliers (ECRHS, the European Community Respiratory Health Survey).
Fig 4.
Box-and-whisker plots showing the distribution of self-reported BMI by figural scale, according to sex, in North-European adults aged 30(±2)years or 45(±2) years in RHINE II, reporting body silhouette in RHINE III: A) n 1145; B) n 439; C) n 829; D) n 997. The bottom and top edge of the box represent the first and third quartiles (interquartile range); the line within the box represents the median; the ends of the bottom and top whiskers represent the upper and lower adjacent values; and the dots represent outliers (RHINE, the Respiratory Health in Northern Europe study).
Table 2.
Correlation between objectively measured (ECRHS I or II) or self-reported (RHINE II) height and weight and body silhouettes reported in ECRHS III and RHINE III.
Table 3.
Discriminatory capabilities of body silhouettes for identifying obesity (BMI≥30) retrospectively, according to sex and recall time in women and men age 30(±2) or 45(±2) years in ECRHS I or II with objectively measured height and weight and in RHINE II with self-reported height and weight.
Results of ROC curve analysis.