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Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults

BACKGROUND: Application of advanced body composition measurement methods is not practical in developing countries context due to cost and unavailability of facilities. This study generated ethnic specific body fat percent prediction equation for Ethiopian adults using appropriate data. METHODS: A cr...

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Autores principales: Sinaga, Makeda, Sinaga Teshome, Melese, Yemane, Tilhun, Tegene, Elsah, Lindtsrom, David, Belachew, Tefera
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33836830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00224-3
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author Sinaga, Makeda
Sinaga Teshome, Melese
Yemane, Tilhun
Tegene, Elsah
Lindtsrom, David
Belachew, Tefera
author_facet Sinaga, Makeda
Sinaga Teshome, Melese
Yemane, Tilhun
Tegene, Elsah
Lindtsrom, David
Belachew, Tefera
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description BACKGROUND: Application of advanced body composition measurement methods is not practical in developing countries context due to cost and unavailability of facilities. This study generated ethnic specific body fat percent prediction equation for Ethiopian adults using appropriate data. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried ifrom February to April 2015 among 704 randomly selected adult employees of Jimma University. Ethnic specific Ethiopian body fat percent (BF%) prediction equation was developed using a multivariable linear regression model with measured BF% as dependent variable and age, sex, and body mass index as predictor variables. Agreement between fat percent measured using air displacement plethysmography and body fat percent estimated using Caucasian prediction equations was determined using Bland Altman plot. RESULTS: Comparison of ADP measured and predicted BF% showed that Caucasian prediction equation underestimated body fat percent among Ethiopian adults by 6.78% (P < 0.0001). This finding is consistent across all age groups and ethnicities in both sexes. Bland Altman plot did not show agreement between ADP and Caucasian prediction equation (mean difference = 6.7825) and some of the points are outside 95% confidence interval. The caucasian prediction equation significantly underestimates body fat percent in Ethiopian adults, which is consistent across all ethnic groups in the sample. The study developed Ethnic specific BF% prediction equations for Ethiopian adults. CONCLUSION: The Caucasian prediction equation significantly underestimates body fat percent among Ethiopian adults regardless of ethnicity. Ethiopian ethnic-specific prediction equation can be used as a very simple, cheap, and cost-effective alternative for estimating body fat percent among Ethiopian adults for health care provision in the prevention of obesity and related morbidities and for research purposes.
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spelling pubmed-80336992021-04-09 Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults Sinaga, Makeda Sinaga Teshome, Melese Yemane, Tilhun Tegene, Elsah Lindtsrom, David Belachew, Tefera J Health Popul Nutr Research Article BACKGROUND: Application of advanced body composition measurement methods is not practical in developing countries context due to cost and unavailability of facilities. This study generated ethnic specific body fat percent prediction equation for Ethiopian adults using appropriate data. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried ifrom February to April 2015 among 704 randomly selected adult employees of Jimma University. Ethnic specific Ethiopian body fat percent (BF%) prediction equation was developed using a multivariable linear regression model with measured BF% as dependent variable and age, sex, and body mass index as predictor variables. Agreement between fat percent measured using air displacement plethysmography and body fat percent estimated using Caucasian prediction equations was determined using Bland Altman plot. RESULTS: Comparison of ADP measured and predicted BF% showed that Caucasian prediction equation underestimated body fat percent among Ethiopian adults by 6.78% (P < 0.0001). This finding is consistent across all age groups and ethnicities in both sexes. Bland Altman plot did not show agreement between ADP and Caucasian prediction equation (mean difference = 6.7825) and some of the points are outside 95% confidence interval. The caucasian prediction equation significantly underestimates body fat percent in Ethiopian adults, which is consistent across all ethnic groups in the sample. The study developed Ethnic specific BF% prediction equations for Ethiopian adults. CONCLUSION: The Caucasian prediction equation significantly underestimates body fat percent among Ethiopian adults regardless of ethnicity. Ethiopian ethnic-specific prediction equation can be used as a very simple, cheap, and cost-effective alternative for estimating body fat percent among Ethiopian adults for health care provision in the prevention of obesity and related morbidities and for research purposes. BioMed Central 2021-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8033699/ /pubmed/33836830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00224-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Sinaga, Makeda
Sinaga Teshome, Melese
Yemane, Tilhun
Tegene, Elsah
Lindtsrom, David
Belachew, Tefera
Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title_full Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title_fullStr Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title_full_unstemmed Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title_short Ethnic Specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in Ethiopian adults
title_sort ethnic specific body fat percent prediction equation as surrogate marker of obesity in ethiopian adults
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8033699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33836830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00224-3
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