Table 1.

Prevalence of underestimation by gender and race/ethnicity, NHANES 1999–2002

	Men (n = 3115)			Women (n = 3437)
	All	Overweight	Obese	All	Overweight	Obese
White	29.5	43.2	8.9	11.3	20.6	3.1
Black	48.8	66.4	26.2	22.3	40.9	11.2
Hispanic	48.0	63.5	16.8	17.7	29.3	6.7
Other	35.6	50.2	13.0	19.3	23.4	10.4