DEXA or BMI: Clinical considerations for evaluating obesity in collegiate division I-A American football athletes

Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 436-438

  Lambert, Brad S ^a   Oliver, Jonathan M ^a   Katts, Gilbert R ^b   Green, John S ^a   Martin, Steven E ^a   Crouse, Stephen F ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Integrative Health Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

body composition; college athletics; football; metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITOMETRY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATHLETES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; STUDENTS; TEXAS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865860477     PISSN: 1050642X     EISSN: 15363724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JSM.0b013e31825d5d65     Document Type: Article

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