Body fat measurements in elite adolescent volleyball players: Correlation between skinfold thickness, bioelectrical impedance analysis, air-displacement plethysmography, and body mass index percentiles

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-400

  Portal, Shawn ^a,b   Rabinowitz, Jonathan ^c   Adler Portal, Dana ^b   Burstein, Ruty Pilz ^b   Lahav, Yair ^b   Meckel, Yoav ^b   Nemet, Dan ^d,e   Eliakim, Alon ^d,e  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WINGATE INSTITUTE   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Air displacement plethysmography; Bioelectrical impedance; Body fat; Elite athletes; Skin fold thickness; Volleyball

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR DISPLACEMENT PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BIOELCTRICAL IMPEDENCE ANALYSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SKINFOLD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SPORT; ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; IMPEDANCE; METABOLISM; VOLLEYBALL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETES; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; VOLLEYBALL;

EID: 77954672096     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpem.2010.061     Document Type: Article

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