Clinical measures of adiposity and percentage fat loss: Which measure most accurately reflects fat loss and what should we aim for?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 399-403

  Hunt, Linda P ^b   Ford, Anna ^b   Sabin, Matthew A ^b   Crowne, Elizabeth C ^b   Shield, Julian P H ^a,b  

^a BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BAYES THEOREM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBESITY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 34247877477     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2006.103986     Document Type: Article

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