Erratum
for Stevens et al., Am J Clin Nutr 75 (6) 986-992.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 78, No. 3, 498,
September 2003
© 2003 American Society for Clinical Nutrition
Erratum
Stevens J, Juhaeri, Cai J, Jones DW. The effect of decision rules on the choice of a body mass index cutoff for obesity: examples from African American and white women. Am J Clin Nutr 2002;75:986-92.
On page 991, column 1 (paragraph 2, lines 9-15), the text should read as follows: Deurenberg et al (20) showed that for the same body fat, age, and sex, African Americans have a BMI that is 1.3 units higher than that of whites. If excess body fat is the critical variable that conveys obesity-associated risk, then this would imply that the BMI standard in African Americans should be 1.3 units higher than that in whites.
We had repeated an error in the abstract of the publication by Deurenberg et al referred to above.
