Prediction of total body water and fatness from anthropometry: Importance of skinfold measurements

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 331-340

  Kashiwazaki, Hiroshi ^a   Dejima, Yasushi ^b   Orias Rivera, Jose ^c   Coward, William A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hospital Virgen de Copacabana   (Bolivia)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AYMARA;

EID: 0004647344     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(1996)8:3<331::aid-ajhb4>3.0.co;2-2     Document Type: Article

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