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Katherine M. Flegal

Katherine M. Flegal

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Overview

Katherine M. Flegal is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Medicine and Health Professions, with significant contributions to subfields such as Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pharmacy, Physiology, General Health Professions, and Oncology.

Their work addresses multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Obesity and Health Practices
  • Nutrition and Health in Aging
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Katherine M. Flegal has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Obesity
  • Epidemiology
  • The AMA Journal of Ethic
  • The Lancet

Selected recent papers by Katherine M. Flegal include:

  • Use and Misuse of BMI Categories, 2023, The AMA Journal of Ethic
  • The obesity wars and the education of a researcher: A personal account, 2021, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
  • BMI and obesity trends in Chinese national survey data, 2021, The Lancet
  • Evaluation of a suggested novel method to adjust BMI calculated from self-reported weight and height for measurement error, 2021, Obesity
  • Fairness in scientific debate, 2021, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Barry I. Graubard
  • John P. A. Ioannidis
  • Gregory Haber
  • Joshua N. Sampson
  • Jacqueline D. Wright

Best Publications

  • Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

    Tim J Cole;Mary C Bellizzi;Katherine M Flegal;William H Dietz

  • Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1999-2004

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Margaret D. Carroll;Lester R. Curtin;Margaret A. McDowell

  • Prevalence of childhood and adult obesity in the United States, 2011-2012.

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Margaret D. Carroll;Brian K. Kit;Brian K. Kit;Katherine M. Flegal

  • 2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: methods and development.

    Robert J Kuczmarski;Cynthia L Ogden;Shumei S Guo;Laurence M Grummer-Strawn

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2008 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Wayne Rosamond;Katherine Flegal;Karen Furie;Alan Go

  • Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008.

    Katherine M. Flegal;Margaret D. Carroll;Cynthia L. Ogden;Lester R. Curtin

  • Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000

    Katherine M. Flegal;Margaret D. Carroll;Cynthia L. Ogden;Clifford L. Johnson

  • CDC growth charts; United States

    Robert J. Kuczmarski;Cynthia L. Ogden;Laurence M. Grummer-Strawn;Katherine M. Flegal

  • Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in the Distribution of Body Mass Index Among US Adults, 1999-2010

    Katherine M. Flegal;Margaret D. Carroll;Brian K. Kit;Cynthia L. Ogden

  • PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY AMONG US CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND ADULTS, 1999-2002

    Allison A. Hedley;Cynthia L. Ogden;Clifford L. Johnson;Margaret D. Carroll

  • Heart disease and stroke statistics--2009 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee.

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon;Giovanni De Simone

  • PREVALENCE AND TRENDS IN OVERWEIGHT AMONG US CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS, 1999-2000

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Katherine M. Flegal;Margaret D. Carroll;Clifford L. Johnson

  • Prevalence of Obesity Among Adults and Youth: United States, 2011-2014.

    Ogden Cl;Carroll;Fryar Cd;Flegal Km

  • Prevalence of Obesity and Trends in Body Mass Index Among US Children and Adolescents, 1999-2010

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Margaret D. Carroll;Brian K. Kit;Katherine M. Flegal

  • Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    Katherine M. Flegal;Brian K. Kit;Heather Orpana;Barry I. Graubard

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 Update

    Donald Lloyd-Jones;Robert Adams;Mercedes Carnethon

  • Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960–1994

    KM Flegal;Carroll;RJ Kuczmarski;CL Johnson

  • Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007-2008.

    Cynthia L. Ogden;Margaret D. Carroll;Lester R. Curtin;Molly M. Lamb

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2007 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Wayne Rosamond;Katherine Flegal;Gary Friday;Karen Furie

  • Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2006 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee

    Thomas Thom;Nancy Haase;Wayne Rosamond

Frequent Co-Authors

Cynthia L. Ogden
Cynthia L. Ogden Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Barry I. Graubard
Barry I. Graubard National Institutes of Health
David F. Williamson
David F. Williamson Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Mitchell H. Gail
Mitchell H. Gail National Institutes of Health
Tim J. Cole
Tim J. Cole University College London
Karen L. Furie
Karen L. Furie Brown University
Alan S. Go
Alan S. Go Kaiser Permanente
Julia Steinberger
Julia Steinberger University of Minnesota
James B. Meigs
James B. Meigs Harvard University

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