Relationship of Anthropometric Measurements to Body Fat as Determined by Densitometry Potassium-40, and Body Water.

摘要

A variety of anthropometric measurements were made on 223 male and 36 female military personnel for whom total body fat was estimated by density, K40 counting and D2O dilution. Simple correlations with body fat estimates indicated that for the male population, waist, weight and buttocks circumferences were most highly correlated with fat estimate (r=0.70 to 0.85). In the female population skinfold thicknesses were the measurement most highly correlated with weight of body fat (r=0.66 to 0.87). Stepwise multiple regression analysis showed that five of the variables could account for 60-70% of the variation in fat in males and up to 90% in females. Correlations of measurements were higher with fat as estimated by density than with estimates derived from potassium-40 counting or D2O dilution in males. (Author)