Predicting fat percent by skinfolds in racial groups: Durnin and womersley revisited

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 542-549

  Davidson, Lance E ^a   Wang, Jack ^a   Thornton, John C ^a   Kaleem, Zafar ^a   Silva Palacios, Federico ^a   Pierson, Richard N ^a   Heymsfield, Steven B ^a   Gallagher, Dympna ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropometrics; body composition; Dual energy X ray absorptiometry; ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; RACE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSITY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 79952101062     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181ef3f07     Document Type: Article

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