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Physiological models of body composition and human obesity

BACKGROUND: The body mass index (BMI) is the standard parameter for predicting body fat fraction and for classifying degrees of obesity. Currently available regression equations between BMI and fat are based on 2 or 3 parameter empirical fits and have not been validated for highly obese subjects. We...

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Autores principales: Levitt, David G, Heymsfield, Steven B, Pierson, Richard N, Shapses, Sue A, Kral, John G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17883858
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-4-19

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