Inverted BMI rather than BMI is a better proxy for percentage of body fat

Annals of Human Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 681-684

  Nevill, Alan M ^a,b   Stavropoulos Kalinoglou, Antonios ^c   Metsios, Giorgos S ^a,b,c   Koutedakis, Yiannis ^a,b,d   Holder, Roger L ^e   Kitas, George D ^b,c   Mohammed, Mohammed A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND REHABILITATION   (Greece)

^c RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

body fat; Body mass index; inverted body mass index; transformation

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DATA SET; FAT; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MENS HEALTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE;

EID: 80054902595     PISSN: 03014460     EISSN: 14645033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03014460.2011.606832     Document Type: Article

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