Validity assessment of a portable bioimpedance scale to estimate body fat percentage in White and African-American children and adolescents

Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Barreira, T V ^a   Staiano, A E ^a   Katzmarzyk, P T ^a  

^a PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Bioelectrical Impedance; Body Fat Percentage; Dual Energy X Ray Absorptiometry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VALIDITY;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84878375491     PISSN: 20476302     EISSN: 20476310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.I2047T-6310.201Y2.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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