Relative Body Weight and Standardised Brightness-Mode Ultrasound Measurement of Subcutaneous Fat in Athletes: An International Multicentre Reliability Study, Under the Auspices of the IOC Medical Commission

INTRODUCTION: Fat is a metabolic fuel, but excess body fat is ballast mass, and therefore, many elite athletes reduce body fat to dangerously low levels. Uncompressed subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) thickness measured by brightness-mode ultrasound (US) provides an estimate of body fat content. MET...

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Autores principales: Müller, Wolfram, Fürhapter-Rieger, Alfred, Ahammer, Helmut, Lohman, Timothy G., Meyer, Nanna L., Sardinha, Luis B., Stewart, Arthur D., Maughan, Ronald J., Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn, Müller, Tom, Harris, Margaret, Kirihennedige, Nuwanee, Magalhaes, Joao P., Melo, Xavier, Pirstinger, Wolfram, Reguant-Closa, Alba, Risoul-Salas, Vanessa, Ackland, Timothy R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2019
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Original Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7018793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31571156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01192-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7018793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31571156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40279-019-01192-9

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