title: Measurement and prediction of total body fat.
abstract: Though it has been established that skinfold anthropometry has severe limitations as a method of deriving total body fat (TBF), the possibility that the problem might be related more to the assumptions implicit in densitometry has to be addressed. This paper suggests that smaller residual errors might be obtained if sums of skinfolds are regressed against TBF measured by a difference technique (IVNAA + 3H2O dilution), suggesting that the latter may perhaps be a better standard than densitometry.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, U.K.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Beddoe
authors.forename: S B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Samat
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000379:methods; D001823:Body Composition; D015992:Body Mass Index; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012885:Skinfold Thickness