Letter to the Editor

摘要

Clearly, there are various methods available for assessing body composition, and BMI is not one of them. This is true for everybody, especially those who engage in activities that result in higher-than-average levels of muscularity (eg, resistance training, weight lifting). Before strong recommendations on the superiority of skinfold assessment in athletic pediatrics can be made with certainty, this methodology needs to be compared with a gold standard reference.