The geographic distribution of obesity in the US and the potential regional differences in misreporting of obesity

Objective: State‐level estimates of obesity based on self‐reported height and weight suggest a geographic pattern of greater obesity in the Southeastern US; however, the reliability of the ranking among these estimates assumes errors in self‐reporting of height and weight are unrelated to geographic region. Design and Methods: Regional and state‐level prevalence of obesity (body mass index ≥ 30 kg m −2 ) for non‐Hispanic black and white...