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The impact of adjustment of a weight-height index (W/H2) for frame size on the prediction of body fatness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Maartje A. Rookus ,
Jan Burema ,
Paul Deurenberg  and
Wilhelmina A. M. Van Der Wiel-Wetzels
Maartje A. Rookus
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, The Netherlands
Jan Burema
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, The Netherlands
Paul Deurenberg
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, The Netherlands
Wilhelmina A. M. Van Der Wiel-Wetzels
Affiliation:
Department of Human Nutrition, Agricultural University, De Dreijen 12, 6703 BC Wageningen, The Netherlands
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1. The impact of frame-size categories in weight-height tables was studied by comparing the efficiency of the body-mass index (weight/height2 (W/H2)) and weight adjusted for body-height and a body-diameter, W/(H2Dp), in predicting body fatness.

2. Body-weight, body-height, six body-diameters and four skinfold thicknesses were measured in ninety-five men and seventy women, aged between 23 and 35 years. Percentage of body fat was calculated from skinfold thicknesses using regression equations according to Durnin & Womersley (1974).

3. The inclusion of a body-diameter increased the explained variation of body fatness from 57% to 62% (knee) and 63% (shoulder) in men and from 63% to 69% (knee) in women.

4. It can be concluded that in the present population the efficiency of the prediction of percentage of body fat was not improved markedly by the inclusion of a body-diameter in the body-mass index, thus giving no support for the inclusion of frame-size categories in weight-height tables.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , September 1985 , pp. 335 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1985

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