Estimation of body fat in children with intellectual disability: development and cross-validation of a simple anthropometric method
Objective: Population-level monitoring of body composition requires accurate, biologically-relevant, yet feasible methods for estimating percent body fat (%BF). The aim of this study was to develop and cross-validate an equation for %BF from Body Mass Index (BMI), age, and sex among children with in...
Main Authors: | Fabio Bertapelli, Stamatis Agiovlasitis, Robert W. Motl, Marcos M. de Barros-Filho, Gil Guerra-Junior |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2022-09-01
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Series: | Jornal de Pediatria |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021755722000250 |
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