A comparison of military circumference equations to skinfold-based equations to estimate body composition

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 60-63

  Babcock, Carmen J ^a   Kirby, Timothy E ^a   McCarroll, Michele L ^a   Devor, Steven T ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARMY; ARTICLE; BODY CIRCUMFERENCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MALE; NAVY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STANDARD;

EID: 32944463450     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.1.60     Document Type: Article

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