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According to Wikipedia, Katherine Mayhew Flegal is an American epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. She is one of the most highly cited scientists in the field of the epidemiology of obesity according to Thomson Reuters and has been called "one of the great epidemiologists" by former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler.

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Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey (2000) (12414)
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. (2006) (9512)
Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012. (2014) (8352)
Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008. (2010) (7842)
Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2000. (2002) (6637)
2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: methods and development. (2002) (6374)
Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010. (2012) (5395)
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2009) (5287)
CDC growth charts: United States. (2000) (5081)
Prevalence of overweight and obesity among US children, adolescents, and adults, 1999-2002. (2004) (4639)
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2008 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2007) (4589)
Prevalence and trends in overweight among US children and adolescents, 1999-2000. (2002) (4220)
Prevalence of obesity and trends in body mass index among US children and adolescents, 1999-2010. (2012) (4062)
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2007 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2008) (3802)
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2009) (3705)
CDC GROWTH CHARTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: METHODS AND DEVELOPMENT 2000 (2002) (3470)
Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007-2008. (2010) (3435)
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2006 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. (2006) (3370)
Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960–1994 (1998) (3096)
Prevalence of Diabetes, Impaired Fasting Glucose, and Impaired Glucose Tolerance in U.S. Adults: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988–1994 (1998) (2886)
Association of all-cause mortality with overweight and obesity using standard body mass index categories: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (2013) (2844)
Increasing prevalence of overweight among US adults. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991. (1994) (2595)
Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (2007) (2559)
Trends in Obesity Among Adults in the United States, 2005 to 2014. (2016) (2371)
Prevalence of obesity in the United States, 2009-2010. (2012) (2066)
Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity. (2005) (1998)
Trends in Obesity Prevalence Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1988-1994 Through 2013-2014. (2016) (1951)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics version. (2002) (1905)
Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2011-2014. (2015) (1759)
Cause-specific excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity. (2007) (1536)
High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006. (2008) (1487)
Overweight prevalence and trends for children and adolescents. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1963 to 1991. (1995) (1436)
Overweight children and adolescents: description, epidemiology, and demographics. (1998) (1416)
Prevalence of Diabetes and Impaired Fasting Glucose in Adults in the U.S. Population (2006) (1035)
The decline in blood lead levels in the United States. The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) (1994) (861)
Mean body weight, height, and body mass index, United States 1960-2002. (2004) (834)
Exposure of the US population to environmental tobacco smoke: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988 to 1991. (1996) (720)
The epidemiology of obesity. (2007) (719)
Criteria for definition of overweight in transition: background and recommendations for the United States. (2000) (716)
Comparisons of percentage body fat, body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-stature ratio in adults. (2009) (715)
Secular Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors According to Body Mass Index in U.S. Adults (2005) (685)
Racial and ethnic differences in glycemic control of adults with type 2 diabetes. (1999) (679)
Evidence that the prevalence of childhood overweight is plateauing: data from nine countries. (2011) (619)
Development of bioelectrical impedance analysis prediction equations for body composition with the use of a multicomponent model for use in epidemiologic surveys. (2003) (618)
Obesity among adults in the United States--no statistically significant change since 2003-2004. (2007) (574)
Changes in the distribution of body mass index of adults and children in the US population (2000) (548)
Blood lead levels in the US population. Phase 1 of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III, 1988 to 1991) (1994) (529)
Prevalence of obesity among adults: United States, 2011-2012. (2013) (516)
The influence of smoking cessation on the prevalence of overweight in the United States. (1995) (513)
Anthropometric reference data for children and adults: United States, 2003–2006. (2008) (511)
Prevalence of obesity in the United States. (2014) (501)
Obesity and socioeconomic status in adults: United States, 2005-2008. (2010) (496)
Body composition estimates from NHANES III bioelectrical impedance data (2002) (489)
Changes in terminology for childhood overweight and obesity. (2010) (487)
Assessing obesity: classification and epidemiology. (1997) (485)
Varying body mass index cutoff points to describe overweight prevalence among U.S. adults: NHANES III (1988 to 1994). (1997) (478)
Prevalence of overweight among preschool children in the United States, 1971 through 1994. (1997) (464)
Obesity and socioeconomic status in children and adolescents: United States, 2005-2008. (2010) (449)
survey overweight and obesity worldwide : international Establishing a standard definition for child (2000) (418)
Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity: An Evaluation of Potential Bias. (2005) (415)
Characterizing extreme values of body mass index-for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts. (2009) (381)
Use of GHb (HbA1c) in screening for undiagnosed diabetes in the U.S. population. (2000) (377)
Prevalence of overweight in US children: comparison of US growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with other reference values for body mass index. (2001) (362)
Body mass index and obesity-related metabolic disorders in Taiwanese and US whites and blacks: implications for definitions of overweight and obesity for Asians. (2004) (354)
Prevalence of Diabetes in Mexican Americans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans From the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1982–1984 (1991) (316)
Epidemiologic aspects of overweight and obesity in the United States (2005) (312)
Epidemiologic trends in overweight and obesity. (2003) (304)
Obesity paradox in end-stage kidney disease patients. (2014) (290)
Number of pregnancies and the subsequent risk of cardiovascular disease. (1993) (283)
Comparison of Diabetes Diagnostic Categories in the U.S. Population According to 1997 American Diabetes Association and 1980–1985 World Health Organization Diagnostic Criteria (1997) (279)
Anthropometric Reference Data for Children and Adults: United States, 2011-2014. (2016) (278)
The obesity epidemic in children and adults: current evidence and research issues. (1999) (264)
The relative contributions of lean tissue mass and fat mass to bone density in young women. (2005) (254)
Blood Lead Levels and Death from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer: Results from the NHANES III Mortality Study (2006) (252)
Differential misclassification arising from nondifferential errors in exposure measurement. (1991) (244)
High adiposity and high body mass index-for-age in US children and adolescents overall and by race-ethnic group. (2010) (240)
The effects of exposure misclassification on estimates of relative risk. (1986) (235)
Prevalence of obesity among older adults in the United States, 2007-2010. (2012) (232)
Construction of LMS parameters for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts. (2013) (227)
Secular trends in body mass index and skinfold thickness with socioeconomic factors in young adult women. (1988) (205)
A prospective study of childbearing and 10-year weight gain in US white women 25 to 45 years of age. (1994) (202)
Childhood obesity: are we all speaking the same language? (2011) (198)
Reverse causation and illness-related weight loss in observational studies of body weight and mortality. (2011) (198)
Prevalence and trends in overweight in Mexican-american adults and children. (2004) (178)
Overweight in children: definitions and interpretation. (2006) (176)
Distribution of HbA1c Levels For Children and Young Adults in the U.S.: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2002) (171)
Weight-for-stature compared with body mass index-for-age growth charts for the United States from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2002) (165)
Estimates of excess deaths associated with body mass index and other anthropometric variables. (2009) (161)
Estimating deaths attributable to obesity in the United States. (2004) (147)
Children and Adolescents , 1999-2000 Prevalence and Trends in Overweight Among US (2002) (147)
Overweight prevalence among youth in the United States: Why so many different numbers? (1999) (125)
Secular trends in body mass in the United States, 1960-1980. (1988) (124)
Prediction equations do not eliminate systematic error in self-reported body mass index. (1997) (123)
Smoothed percentage body fat percentiles for U.S. children and adolescents, 1999-2004. (2011) (122)
Methods of calculating deaths attributable to obesity. (2004) (119)
Cause-Specific Excess Deaths Associated With Underweight, Overweight, and Obesity (2008) (119)
Estimating population attributable fractions to quantify the health burden of obesity. (2015) (117)
Body mass index categories in observational studies of weight and risk of death. (2014) (116)
Assessing the nation's diet: limitations of the food frequency questionnaire. (1992) (112)
Diabetes, Impaired Fasting Glucose, and Elevated HbA1c in U.S. Adolescents: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2001) (111)
Comparison of the prevalence of shortness, underweight, and overweight among US children aged 0 to 59 months by using the CDC 2000 and the WHO 2006 growth charts. (2008) (109)
Prevalence of pre-obesity and obesity in urban adult Mexicans in comparison with other large surveys. (2000) (105)
Body composition data for individuals 8 years of age and older: U.S. population, 1999-2004. (2010) (102)
Impact of smoking and preexisting illness on estimates of the fractions of deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity in the US population. (2007) (100)
Diabetes, impaired fasting glucose, and elevated HbA1c in U.S. adolescents: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (2000) (98)
Serum selenium levels in the US population (2007) (93)
Reproductive history and coronary heart disease risk in women. (1994) (91)
Distribution of HbA(1c) levels for children and young adults in the U.S.: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. (2002) (88)
Association of body fat percentage with lipid concentrations in children and adolescents: United States, 1999-2004. (2011) (88)
Is there a sex bias in choosing editors? Epidemiology journals as an example. (1998) (85)
Evaluating epidemiologic evidence of the effects of food and nutrient exposures. (1999) (78)
The effects of changes in smoking prevalence on obesity prevalence in the United States. (2007) (78)
The Predicted Effects of Chronic Obesity in Middle Age on Medicare Costs and Mortality (2010) (77)
Defining obesity in children and adolescents: epidemiologic approaches. (1993) (76)
Fifth Phase of the Epidemiologic Transition : The Age of Obesity and Inactivity (2010) (72)
Childhood overweight and family income. (2007) (70)
Secular trends in body mass index and skinfold thickness with socioeconomic factors in young adult men. (1988) (67)
Use of GHb ( HbA 1 c ) in Screening for Undiagnosed Diabetes in the U . S . Population (66)
Comparisons of Self‐Reported and Measured Height and Weight, BMI, and Obesity Prevalence from National Surveys: 1999‐2016 (2019) (64)
Partitioning macronutrient intake estimates from a food frequency questionnaire. (1990) (61)
Comparison of estimated nutrient intakes by food frequency and dietary records in adults. (1989) (61)
Commentary: the epidemic of obesity--what's in a name? (2006) (60)
Impact of increased overweight on the projected prevalence of osteoporosis in older women (2007) (59)
Multiple imputation of missing dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry data in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2011) (57)
The association of blood lead level and cancer mortality among whites in the United States. (2002) (56)
Counting calories: partitioning energy intake estimates from a food frequency questionnaire. (1988) (55)
Higher fasting insulin but lower fasting C‐peptide levels in African Americans in the US population (2002) (50)
Trends in body weight and overweight in the U.S. population. (2009) (48)
Prescription medication use among normal weight, overweight, and obese adults, United States, 2005-2008. (2012) (47)
Influence of Threonine Metabolism on S-Adenosylmethionine and Histone Methylation (2013) (47)
Musculoskeletal disorders: time trends, comorbid conditions, self-assessed health status, and associated activity limitations. (1993) (40)
Comparison of estimated nutrient intakes by food frequency and dietary records in adults. (1989) (39)
Waist circumference of healthy men and women in the United States (2007) (38)
Gravidity, Blood Pressure, and Hypertension among White Women in the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1993) (36)
Blood Lead and Other Metal Biomarkers as Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease Mortality (2016) (36)
Curve smoothing and transformations in the development of growth curves. (1999) (33)
The Obesity Paradox: A Misleading Term That Should Be Abandoned (2018) (30)
Bias in Hazard Ratios Arising From Misclassification According to Self-Reported Weight and Height in Observational Studies of Body Mass Index and Mortality (2018) (30)
children and adolescents: international survey Body mass index cut offs to define thinness in (2007) (30)
Factors involved in selecting a dietary survey methodology for national nutrition surveys (1992) (29)
Perspective: Overweight, mortality and survival (2013) (29)
Comments on ‘Choice of time scale and its effect on significance of predictors in longitudinal studies’ by Michael J. Pencina, Martin G. Larson and Ralph B. D'Agostino, Statistics in Medicine 2007; 26:1343–1359 (2009) (28)
Excess deaths associated with obesity: cause and effect (2006) (28)
Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta‐analysis (2019) (27)
Aim for a healthy weight: what is the target? (2001) (26)
Overweight, obesity, and all-cause mortality--reply. (2013) (26)
Issues in the long-term evaluation of diet in longitudinal studies. (1993) (26)
Estimation of attributable number of deaths and standard errors from simple and complex sampled cohorts (2007) (26)
Obesity, overweight, hypertension, and high blood cholesterol: the importance of age. (2000) (25)
Alcohol consumption and cardiovascular risk factors. (1985) (24)
Body mass index of healthy men compared with healthy women in the United States (2006) (23)
Agreement between two dietary methods in the measurement of alcohol consumption. (1990) (23)
Modeling maternal weight and height in studies of pregnancy outcome among Hispanic women. (1993) (22)
Use and reporting of Bland–Altman analyses in studies of self-reported versus measured weight and height (2019) (20)
Ratio of actual to predicted weight as an alternative to a power-type weight-height index (Benn index). (1990) (20)
The Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity in Canada, Mexico and the United States (2011) (19)
The effects of age categorization on estimates of overweight prevalence for children (2000) (19)
A generalized Mantel-Haenszel analysis of the regression of blood pressure on blood lead using NHANES II data. (1988) (19)
Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Mortality, and Overweight—Reply (2008) (18)
A meta-analysis but not a systematic review: an evaluation of the Global BMI Mortality Collaboration. (2017) (17)
Comparative effects of the restriction method in two large observational studies of body mass index and mortality among adults (2017) (17)
Using adjusted relative risks to calculate attributable fractions. (2006) (16)
Weight-associated deaths in the United States. (2007) (15)
The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account. (2021) (14)
Trends in Obesity and Extreme Obesity Among US Adults—Reply (2010) (13)
Agreement between two dietary methods in reported intake of beer, wine and liquor. (1991) (13)
Curve smoothing and transformations in the development of growth curves. (1999) (13)
Bias in calculation of attributable fractions using relative risks from nonsmokers only. (2014) (13)
Sources of differences in estimates of obesity-associated deaths from first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) hazard ratios. (2010) (12)
The conundrum of smoking cessation and weight gain. (2012) (12)
Body-mass index and all-cause mortality (2017) (11)
Commentary: the quest for weight standards. (2010) (11)
Estimating the impact of obesity (2005) (10)
Dietary selenium and cadmium interrelationships in growing swine. (1980) (10)
Female editorship is an important indicator of gender imbalance (2010) (10)
High body mass index, overweight, and obesity in children: Definitions, terminology, and interpretation (2010) (9)
Commentary: is there a best index of weight for height? (2011) (9)
Racial and Ethnic Diff e rences in Glycemic C o n t rol of Adults With Type 2 Diabetes (1999) (8)
Birth weight and childhood size in a national sample of 6‐ to 11‐year‐old children (1995) (8)
Interpreting trends estimated from national survey data. (2007) (7)
Detecting obesity based on skinfold thicknesses. (2005) (7)
Effects of trimming weight-for-height data on growth-chart percentiles. (2012) (7)
Weight and mortality. (2006) (7)
A meta-analysis of individual participant data constructed to align with prior expert views: comments on Bhupathiraju et al. (2017) (7)
Evaluation of a suggested novel method to adjust BMI calculated from self‐reported weight and height for measurement error (2021) (6)
Alcohol, coronary heart disease, and total mortality. (1985) (6)
The Epidemiology of Obesity among Adults (2014) (6)
A review of prevalence and trends in childhood obesity in the United States (2010) (5)
Gravidity and Serum Lipids among Hispanic Women in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1995) (5)
FLEGAL ET AL. RESPOND (2005) (4)
Fairness in scientific debate. (2021) (4)
High Body Mass Index for Age Among US Children and Adolescents, 2003-2006. Commentary (2008) (4)
Metabolically Healthy Overweight and Obesity (2014) (4)
Obesity and cancer. (2003) (4)
The impact of differences in methodology and population characteristics on the prevalence of hypertension in US adults in 1976-1980 and 1999-2002. (2010) (4)
Blood lipid levels in type 2 diabetes. What are the effects of diet? (1999) (3)
Déjà vu all over again: the re-analysis of epidemiologic data. (1998) (3)
Assessing the Utility of Glycated Hemoglobin (1998) (3)
Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Mortality, and Overweight. Authors' reply (2008) (3)
The perils of using predicted values in place of observed covariates: an example of predicted values of body composition and mortality risk. (2021) (2)
Simple examples should not be extrapolated to the US population (2008) (2)
Comparing the Areas under Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves for Cluster Designs (2002) (2)
BMI and obesity trends in Chinese national survey data (2021) (2)
Obesity and Poverty: A New Public Health Challenge edited by Manuel Peña and Jorge Bacallao, 2000, 124 pages, softcover, $22.00. Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC. (2001) (2)
Use of Projection Analyses and Obesity Trends-Reply. (2016) (2)
Re: Sustained weight loss and risk of breast cancer in women ≥50 years: a pooled analysis of prospective data. (2020) (2)
Researchers Weigh Risks Due to Overweight (2005) (1)
Detecting obesity based on skinfold thicknesses. Author's reply (2005) (1)
Re. Assessing Uncontrolled Confounding in Associations of Being Overweight With All-Cause Mortality. (2022) (1)
Assessing the utility of glycated hemoglobin. (1998) (1)
Excess mortality estimates may be too high (2022) (1)
he Epidemiology of Obesity (2007) (1)
Magic Words: the Phonology of Fantasy Neologisms (2008) (1)
Obesity in Older Adults in the United States (2014) (1)
Calculating deaths attributable to obesity. Authors' reply (2005) (1)
Practice of Epidemiology Bias in Hazard Ratios Arising From Misclassi fi cation According to Self-Reported Weight and Height in Observational Studies of Body Mass Index and Mortality (2018) (1)
Reply to U Trippo et al (2004) (1)
Fraction of premature deaths in the Canadian population that were attributable to overweight and obesity. (2004) (1)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Simple examples should not be extrapolated to the US (2008) (1)
Letter to the Editor re Overweight and obesity mortality trends in Canada, 1985-2000 (2004) (0)
Practice of Epidemiology BodyMass Index Categories in Observational Studies of Weight and Risk of Death (2014) (0)
Reply to TJ Cole (2010) (0)
Déjà vu all over again: the re-analysis of epidemiologic data. (1998) (0)
Response to: “A rigorous evaluation of a method to adjust BMI for self‐report bias” (2022) (0)
Obesity in US Children and Adults—Reply (2012) (0)
Body mass index and obesity-related metabolic disorders in Taiwanese and US whites and blacks : implications for definitions of overweight and obesity for Asians 1 – 3 (2003) (0)
How Many Deaths? Excess Deaths Associated with Underweight, Overweight and Obesity in the U.S.: 86 (2006) (0)
Flegal et al. reply. (2014) (0)
Effect of zero end digit preference in blood pressure measurement on prevalence of hypertension in NHANES 1976–80 and 1999–02 (2006) (0)
Comparing strategies to estimate the association of obesity with mortality via a Markov model (2011) (0)
Aclnowledgements (2004) (0)
Cardiovascular Death and Cancer Death—Competing Risk? Drs. Nabel and Braunwald 1 have ele- (2012) (0)
Reply to TO Cheng (2004) (0)
Obesity Childhood Overweight and Family Income (2007) (0)
In Reply. (2012) (0)
A Female Career in Research. (2022) (0)
British Medical Journal (1933) (0)
Re: "Costs and statistical power associated with five methods of collecting occupation exposure information for population-based case-control studies". (1991) (0)
A paradox or a challenge? (2019) (0)
Statistical Report on Heart Diseases and Strokes in Statistical Report on Heart Diseases and Strokes in Statistical Report on Heart Diseases and Strokes in Statistical Report on Heart Diseases and Strokes in (2015) (0)
novel drugs that activate apoptosis in selected cell popula- tions and use these compounds to limit viral replication? (2006) (0)
How body size became a disease (2021) (0)
P revalence of Diabetes, Impaired Fasting Glucose, and Impaired Glucose To l e r a n c e in U.S. Adults (1998) (0)

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