Submission date: 2.08.

2016
Dear Editors,
We are pleased to submit our manuscript entitled: Self-Reported Anthropometrics: An
Adequate Evaluation?, for consideration as a research article for Bosnian Journal of Basic Medicine.
This study is a cross-sectional study, on a sample of 251 participants regarding the reliability of self-
reported anthropometric measurements. Many studies used self-reported anthropometric parameters.
However there are still criticisms of this method, so it is sometimes frowned upon and regarded with
skepticism.
Obesity is a risk factor for many diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney and heart
disease. Although the available data do not give adiposity disposition, BMI is used to acclaim the
prevalence of obesity due to its easy determination. Its calculation is based on height and weight, which
are parameters commonly self-reported in populational studies, due to financial and time reasons,
allowing the assessment of a large number of people.
In this study we determined the feasibility and accuracy of collecting self-reported height and
weight.
This manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration in the same or
substantially similar form in any other peer-reviewed media.
All authors listed have contributed sufficiently to the project to be included as authors, and all
those who are qualified to be authors are listed in the author byline. ADP and IA contributed to the
conceptualization and design of the study, the acquisition of the data, analysis and interpretation of the
data and writing of the article. ADP and GEB contributed to the conceptualization and design of the
study, analysis and interpretation of the data and writing of the article. All authors have. read and
approved the submitted manuscript.
To the best of our knowledge, no conflict of interest, financial or other, exists. We have included
acknowledgements, conflicts of interest, and funding sources after the discussion.
Sincerely,
Alina Delia Popa
Corresponding author
Alina Delia Popa, e-mail: roxyal04@gmail.com, Phone no. 004752064464, Adress: str. Universitatii 1,
Iasi, Romania