Body Fat and Body-Mass Index among a Multiethnic Sample of College-Age Men and Women

• Main Authors: Catherine L. Carpenter (Author), Eric Yan (Author), Steve Chen (Author), Kurt Hong (Author), Adam Arechiga (Author), Woo S. Kim (Author), Max Deng (Author), Zhaoping Li (Author), David Heber (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Obesity prevalence and average body composition vary by US race and gender. Asian Americans have the lowest prevalence of obesity. Relying on body-mass index (BMI) to estimate obesity prevalence may misclassify subgroups that appear normally weighted but have excess body fat. We evaluated percentage...