Anthropometric equation for assessment of percent body fat in adult males of the Canary Islands, Spain;Una ecuación antropométrica para la determinación del porcentaje de grasa corporal en varones jóvenes de la población canaria

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 207-213

  Lopez Calbet J A ^a   Armengol Ramos, O ^a   Chavarren Cabrero, J ^a   Dorado Garcia, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPAIN; SPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPAIN; SPORTS;

EID: 0031568466     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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