Detecting Body Fat-A Weighty Problem BMI versus Subcutaneous Fat Patterns in Athletes and Non-Athletes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Kruschitz, Renate ^a,b,c   Wallner Liebmann, Sandra J ^b   Hamlin, Michael J ^d   Moser, Maximilian ^b   Ludvik, Bernhard ^a   Schnedl, Wolfgang J ^e   Tafeit, Erwin ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c SIPCAN Special Institute for Preventive Cardiology and Nutrition   (Austria)

^d LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^e Practice for General Internal Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BACK; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NECK; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TRUNK;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETES; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SWIMMING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883182273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072002     Document Type: Article

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