A new anthropometric index for body fat estimation in patients with severe obesity

BACKGROUND: Body mass index (BMI) has been used to assess body adiposity, but it cannot adequately reflect body fat (BF) amount. The body adiposity index (BAI) has been shown a better performance than BMI for this purpose, but it can be inaccurate to estimate BF under extreme amounts of fat. Here, w...

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Autores principales: Belarmino, Giliane, Torrinhas, Raquel S., Sala, Priscila, Horie, Lilian M., Damiani, Lucas, Lopes, Natalia C., Heymsfield, Steven B., Waitzberg, Dan L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30288293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-018-0202-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6166270/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30288293
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40608-018-0202-8

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