The effect of a medical opinion on self-perceptions of weight for Mexican adults: perception of change and cognitive biases

Table 1 Summary statistics for the population of 17009 adults taken from ENSANUT 2006

NI Men			I Men			NI Women			I Women
Normal	Over	Obese	Normal	Over	Obese	Normal	Over	Obese	Normal	Over	Obese
2219	2550	1164	10	84	178	3034	3795	3125	53	210	587
37.40%	42.98%	19.62%	3.68%	30.88%	65.44%	30.48%	38.13%	31.39%	6.24%	24.71%	69.06%

Primary categories are labelled by identification of obesity by a healthcare professional (NI – Non-Identified obese and I – Identified obese) and gender (Men, Women). Further division is based on actual BMI, where Normal represents 18.5 ≤ BMI < 25, Over represents 25 ≤ BMI < 30 and Obese represents BMI ≥ 30

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