Predicting body composition by densitometry from simple anthropometric measurements

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 4-14

  Lean, Michael E J ^a   Han, Thang S ^b   Deurenberg, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

anthropometry; Body composition; body mass index; fat; fat distribution

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY DENSITY; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030021699     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/63.1.4     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Sin WE. Body composition from fluid spaces and density analysis of methods. In: Brozek J. Henschel A, eds. Technique for measuring body composition. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1961:223-44.
2. Boddy K, King PC, Hume R, Weyers E. The relation of total body potassium to heights, weights, and age in normal adults. J Clin Pathol 1972;25:512-7.
3. 2H-labelled water. Am J Clin Nutr 1980;33:2686-93.
4. Brodie DA. Techniques of measuring body composition, part I. Sports Med 1980;5:11-40.
5. Garrow JS. Indices of adiposity. Nutr Abstr Rev 1983;53:697-708.
6. Gibson RS. Principles of nutritional assessment. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1990.
7. Shephard RJ. Body composition in biological anthropology. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
8. Durnin JVGA, Womersley J. Body fat assessed from total body density and its estimation from skinfold thickness: measurements on 481 men and women from 16 to 72 years. Br J Nutr 1974;32:77-97.
9. Jackson AS, Pollock ML. Generalised equations for predicting body density of men. Br J Nutr 1978;40:497-504.
10. Jackson AS, Pollock ML, Ward A. Generalised equations for predicting body density of women. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1980;12:175-82.
11. Deurenberg P, Weststrate JA, Seidell JC. Body mass index as a measure of body fatness age- and sex- specific prediction formulas. Br J J Nutr 1991;65:105-14.
12. McNeill G, Fowler PA, Maughan RJ, et al. Body fat in lean and overweight women estimated by six methods. Br J Nutr 1991;65:95-103.
13. Reilly JJ, Murray LA, Wilson J, Durnin JVGA. Measuring the body composition of elderly subjects: a comparison of methods. Br J Nutr 1994;2:33-44.
14. Lean MEJ, Mann JI. Obesity, body fat distribution and diet in the aetiology of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. In: Pickup J, Williams G, eds. Textbook of diabetes. Oxford, United Kingdom. Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1991:181-91
15. Han TS, McNeill G, Baras P, Foster MA. Waist circumference predicts intra-abdominal fat better than waist:hip ratio in women. Proc Nutr Soc 1995;54:152A(abstr).
16. Pouliot M-C, Despres JP, Lemieux SL, et al. Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women. Am J Cardiol 1994;73:460-8.
17. Seidell JC, Bjömtorp P, Sjöström L, Sannerstedt R, Krotkiewski M, Kvist H. Regional distribution of muscle and fat mass in men - new insight into the risk of abdominal obesity using computed tomography. Int J Obes 1989;13:289-303.
18. Ross R, Shaw KD, Martel Y, de Guise J, Avruch L. Adipose tissue distribution measured by magnetic resonance imaging in obese women. Am J Clin Nutr 1993;57:470-5.
19. Ross R, Léger L, Moris D, de Guise J,. Guardo R. Quantification of adipose tissue by MRI: relationship with anthropometric variables. J Appl Physiol 1992;72:787-95.
20. Womersley J. Obesity: its assessment, significance and control. PhD thesis: University of Glasgow, 1974.
21. Wilmore JH, Vodak PA, Parr RB, Girandola RN, Billing JE. Further simplification of a method for determination of residual lung volume. Med Sci Sports Exerc 1980;12:216-8.
22. World Health Organisation. Measuring obesity - classification and description of anthropometric data. Report on a WHO consultation on the epidemiology of obesity. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe. 1987. [EUR/ICP/NUT 125, 061I2v.].
23. Bland M. An introduction to medical statistics. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1987.
24. Bland JM, Altman DG. Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement. Lancet 1986;1:307-10.
25. Gregory J, Foster K, Tyler H, Wiseman M. The dietary and nutritional survey of British adults. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1990:288-34.
26. Katch V. Assessment of body composition: comments on prediction. In: Norgan NG, ed. Human body composition and fat distribution. Wageningen, Netherlands: Stichting Netherlands Instituut voor de Voeding [distr], 1985. Euro Nut report, 8:15-30.
27. Barata J, Schoen T, van Dijk T. Wilmore J. Comparison of two generalised skinfolds protocols for assessing fat mass in young adult population engaged in sport Int J Obes 1993:17(suppl 2):16(abstr).
28. Björntorp P. Adipose tissue in obesity (Willendorf lecture). In: Hirsh J, van Itallie T, eds. Recent advances in obesity research IV. London: John Libbey, 1985:163-70.
29. Han TS, Lean MEJ. Body composition in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes and central fat distribution. Diabet Med 1994; 11(suppl 1):S39(abstr)