ArticleBMC obesity2018
A new anthropometric index for body fat estimation in patients with severe obesity.
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- The Body Adiposity Index is not applicable to the Brazilian adult population.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Waist-to-height ratio and BMI as predictive markers for insulin resistance in women with PCOS in Kolkata, India.Endocrine · 2021Article
- Speed of sound ultrasound: comparison with proton density fat fraction assessed with Dixon MRI for fat content quantification of the lower extremity.European radiology · 2020Article
- Optimal cut-off values for anthropometric measures of obesity in screening for cardiometabolic disorders in adults.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Why primary obesity is a disease?Journal of translational medicine · 2019Review
- Comparison of Body Composition Prediction Equations with Air Displacement Plethysmography in Overweight and Obese Caucasian Males.International journal of exercise science · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundBody 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, we propose a new anthropometric index, the Belarmino-Waitzberg (BeW) index, for specific estimation of BF in severely obese patients.
methodsIn 144 adult patients with severe obesity, BF was estimated by air displacement plethysmography (ADP), as the reference method, along with the follow anthropometric measurements: height, abdominal circumference (AC), hip circumference (HC), weight, BMI (weight/ height
resultsThe BF% was 52.05 ± 5.42 for ADP and 59.11 ± 5.95 for the BeW index (all results are expressed as the mean ± standard deviation). A positive Pearson correlation (
conclusionsThe new BeW index showed a good performance for BF estimation in patients with severe obesity and can be superior to the BAI for this purpose.
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