As important as obesity is to measure and use as an indicator for health, it seems as though there is more controversy than there is consensus on the correct way to measure when obesity and risk from

As important as obesity is to measure and use as an indicator for health, it seems as though there is more controversy than there is consensus on the correct way to measure when obesity and risk from obesity occurs.  Read through the articles and answer one of the following questions: 

Question 1 A:        Can the specificity and sensitivity of BMI be accurately calculated in the Zhang article?  Why or why not? 

Question 1 B:        Compare the BMI criteria used in the Sweat article to the criteria used in the Pellegrini article for weight measurement.  Which authors do the best job of convincing the reader of the specificity and sensitivity of the measurements used for the study? Why? 

Question 2:         Discuss the use of survival analysis in the article by Yu et al. (2024).Does the use of the survival analysis in the article correspond to the concept in the text? How?

Articles

Yu, W., Jiang, W., Yuan, J., Fan, T., Xiao, H., Sun, L., Zhu, Y., Li, W., & Wu, S. (2024). Association between BMI and outcomes in critically ill patients: An analysis of the MIMIC-III database. Scientific Reports, 14, 31127. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82424-5Links to an external site. 

Zhang, E., Davis, A. M., Yakes Jimenez, E., Lancaster, B., Serrano-Gonzalez, M., Chang, D., Lee, J., Lai, J.-S., Pyles, L., VanWagoner, T., & Darden, P. (2024). Validation of remote anthropometric measurements in a rural randomized pediatric clinical trial in primary care settings. Scientific Reports, 14(411). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50790-1Links to an external site.