Abstract Purpose of Review Overweight and obesity are associated to health prognosis.
Therefore, body composition assessment is an important health outcome, especially in adult …

Background: Precise and accurate measurements of body composition are useful in
achieving a greater understanding of human energy metabolism in physiology and in …

Background Adiposity is an independent predictor of metabolic disease. However, highly
accurate body fat assessment is not routinely done due to limited access to expensive and …

Background The percent and distribution of body fat are important factors in the
pathogenesis of numerous diseases. Our aim was to investigate common anthropometric …

Fat and lean components of the body including total body fat, fat-free mass and total body
water and ectopic fat accumulation are important constituents that link obesity, aging, and …

Objective To validate anthropometric equations in the current literature predicting body fat
percentage (% BF) in the Greek population, to develop and validate two anthropometric …

Background BMI based body fat equations developed from Womersley and Durnin (BMI
WO), Jackson et al.(BMI JA), Deurenberg et al.(BMI DE), and Gallagher et al.(BMI GA) are …

Introduction The aim of this study was to test the validity of existing equations, retrieved from
the literature, in the Algerian adult population. To develop, and validate, new predictive …

Waist girth (WG) represents a quick, simple, and inexpensive tool that correlates with excess
of fat mass in humans; however, this measurement does not provide information on body …

Equations based on simple anthropometric measurements to predict body fat percentage
(BF%) are lacking in Chinese population with increasing prevalence of obesity and related …