Estimation of body fat in children with intellectual disability: development and cross-validation of a simple anthropometric method

• Main Authors: Fabio Bertapelli (Author), Stamatis Agiovlasitis (Author), Robert W. Motl (Author), Marcos M. de Barros-Filho (Author), Gil Guerra-Junior (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Elsevier, 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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Objective: Population-level monitoring of body composition requires accurate, biologically-relevant, yet feasible methods for estimating percent body fat (%BF). The aim of this study was to develop and cross-validate an equation for %BF from Body Mass Index (BMI), age, and sex among children with in...