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Agreement between BMI and body fat obesity definitions in a physically active population

OBJECTIVES: Body mass index (BMI) is a widely used proxy of body composition (BC). Concerns exist regarding possible BMI misclassification among active populations. We compared the prevalence of obesity as categorized by BMI or by skinfold estimates of body fat percentage (BF%) in a physically activ...

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Autores principales: Porto, Luiz Guilherme G., Nogueira, Rosenkranz M., Nogueira, Eugênio C., Molina, Guilherme E., Farioli, Andrea, Junqueira, Luiz Fernando, Kales, Stefanos N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10522165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27901177
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/2359-3997000000220