title: The influence of ethnicity and gender on the association between measured obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness with self-rated overweight, physical activity and health.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Little is known about how ethnicity may influence how self-rated physical activity (PA) and obesity relates to measured obesity, cardiorespiratory fitness and self-rated health.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the influence of ethnicity on the association between: (1) self-rated and measured obesity; (2) self-reported PA and cardiorespiratory fitness; and (3) obesity and PA with self-rated health.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from NHANES 1999-2004 (2,981 adults) was used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Compared to white and overweight black men, Hispanic men were less likely to consider themselves overweight (OR = 0.36-0.56). Compared to white men, black active men were more likely to report being more active than their peers (OR = 1.44) but were less likely to be fit (OR = 0.74). Black active women and non-white overweight women were less likely to self-rate as having very good or excellent health as compared to white women with similar self-reported and measured health factors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ethnicity and gender influence how self-rated and measured health factors interrelate.
authors.affiliation: School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Kuk
authors.forename: Chris I
authors.initials: CI
authors.lastname: Ardern
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D009765:Obesity / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D050177:Overweight / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D057566:Self Report; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; NHANES; National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; cardiorespiratory fitness; ethnicity; obesity; physical activity; race; self-rated health