Validity of an equation based on anthropometry to estimate body fat in older adults;Validez de una ecuación basada en antropometría para estimar la grasa corporal en adultos mayores

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 357-365

  Huerta, Raquel Huerta ^a   Esparza Romero, Julián ^a   Urquidez, Rene ^a   Pacheco, Bertha I ^a   Valencia, Mauro E ^a   Alemán Mateo, Heliodoro ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALIMENTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body fat; Elderly; Predictive equation; Skinfold thickness

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 45749089335     PISSN: 00040622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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