Use of air displacement plethysmography in the determination of percentage of fat mass in African American children

Pediatric Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-54

  Buchholz, Andrea C ^a,b   Majchrzak, Karen M ^a   Chen, Kong Y ^a   Shankar, Sadhna M ^c   Buchowski, Maciej S ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Meharry Medical College ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AIR; AIR DISPLACEMENT PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BONE MINERAL; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TIDAL VOLUME;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; MALE; OBESITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 3042693916     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000130477.05324.79     Document Type: Article

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