Table 4. Characteristics of BMI status and misreporting of diet by country in the subcohort (n = 15,434): the EPIC-InterAct Study.
| Country | N | % Women | BMI status (%)1 | Misreporting of diet (%)2 | ||||
| Normal weight | Overweight | Obesity | Under-reporters | Plausible reporters | Over-reporters | |||
| France | 549 | 100 | 79.4 | 15.7 | 4.9 | 9.5 | 78.3 | 12.2 |
| Italy | 1,921 | 66.9 | 46.8 | 39.6 | 13.7 | 16.9 | 71.9 | 11.2 |
| Spain | 3,457 | 61.7 | 22.2 | 48.8 | 29.0 | 29.1 | 66.4 | 4.5 |
| UK | 1,200 | 61.4 | 52.2 | 37.4 | 10.4 | 32.3 | 61.9 | 5.8 |
| Netherlands | 1,366 | 83.2 | 53.4 | 35.5 | 11.1 | 30.2 | 68.6 | 1.2 |
| Germany | 2,012 | 58.4 | 47.4 | 38.4 | 14.2 | 36.1 | 60.3 | 3.5 |
| Sweden | 2,852 | 57.1 | 53.7 | 35.6 | 10.7 | 29.0 | 67.0 | 4.1 |
| Denmark | 2,077 | 46.6 | 44.1 | 42.7 | 13.2 | 24.5 | 71.9 | 3.7 |
1
Normal weight was defined as a BMI<25 kg/m2, overweight as a BMI between 25 and 30 kg/m2 and obesity as a BMI ≥30 kg/m2.
2
Misreporting of diet was estimated by using the ratio of reported energy intake to the predicted basal metabolic rate (EI/BMR). Individuals with an EI/BMR<1.14 were defined as under-reporters, EI/BMR>1.14 and <2.1 as plausible reporters and EI/BMR>2.1 as over-reporters.