Age-related variability in body composition methods for assessment of percent fat and fat-free mass in men aged 20-74 years

Age and Ageing

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 147-154

  Bemben, Michael G ^a,b   Massey, Benjamin H ^a   Bemben, Debra A ^a   Boileau, Richard A ^a   Misner, James E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Body composition; Skinfold thickness; Underwater weighing; Whole body potassium counting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DENSITOMETRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; DENSITOMETRY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 0031959322     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/27.2.147     Document Type: Article

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