Open AccessEstimating body fat in African American and white adolescent girls: a comparison of skinfold-thickness equations with a 4-compartment criterion model
Author(s) -
William W. Wong,
Janice E. Stuff,
Nancy F. Butte,
E. O’Brian Smith,
Kenneth J. Ellis
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/72.2.348
Subject(s) - skinfold thickness , compartment (ship) , white (mutation) , body weight , medicine , body height , demography , endocrinology , chemistry , geology , sociology , biochemistry , oceanography , gene
Although skinfold-thickness equations are widely used to estimate body fat, their accuracy in a biracial population of female adolescents has not been established.
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