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. 2018 Aug 20;95(6):800. doi: 10.1007/s11524-018-0310-2

Correction to: Change in Obesity Prevalence among New York City Adults: the NYC Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2004 and 2013–2014

Pasquale Rummo 1,, Rania Kanchi 1, Sharon Perlman 2, Brian Elbel 1,3, Chau Trinh-Shevrin 1, Lorna Thorpe 1
PMCID: PMC6286286  PMID: 30129003

Correction to: J Urban Health

10.1007/s11524-018-0288-9

Readers should note the following two typographical errors in this article:

The 1st typo is in the final paragraph of the Introduction, here:

Original text: We compared changes in obesity prevalence in NYC to corresponding changes at the national level using data from NHANES 2003–2004 and 2011–2012.

New text: We compared changes in obesity prevalence in NYC to corresponding changes at the national level using data from NHANES 2001–2004 and 2011–2014.

The 2nd typo in the “Study Sample” sub-section of the Methods, here:

Original text: To obtain national estimates of obesity change, we used data from NHANES 2003–2004 and 2011–2012 [26], with a sample size of 10,927 and 7408, respectively, after excluding those without valid height and weight measurements.

New text: To obtain national estimates of obesity change, we used data from NHANES 2001–2004 and 2011–2014 [26], with a sample size of 10,927 and 7408, respectively, after excluding those without valid height and weight measurements.

Footnotes

The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1007/s11524-018-0288-9


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