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- Title
VALIDITY OF USING WAIST AND HIP CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE BODY COMPOSITION OF YOUNG SYRIAN MEN.
- Authors
AL-BACHIR, MAHFOUZ; AHMAD, HUSAM
- Abstract
This study examined the relation between waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and triceps skin-fold thickness and percentage body fat in young Syrian men. The aim was to develop equations that can use these anthropometric characteristics to estimate percentage body fat in this group of subjects. A total of 2470 healthy Syrian men aged 18-19 years were enrolled in the study in 2010-2011. The anthropometric characteristics of all subjects were measured. The percentage body fat of 213 of the subjects was determined using the deuterium dilution (DD) technique as a reference method. The validity of using WC, HC, WHpR and WHtR to calculate percentage body fat, in comparison with the reference method (DD technique), was assessed by calculating biases and limits of agreement. The estimates of percentage body fat using 'WC' and 'WC with triceps skin-fold' measurements ranged from 13.00±5.56% to 14.55±8.63%, and were lower than those determined using the reference method (21.32±6.42%). A better prediction equation is proposed for young adults, based on a multiple linear regression model using WC, HC and WHtR.
- Subjects
SYRIA; HUMAN body composition measurement; WAIST circumference; MEASUREMENT of lipids in the body; TRICEPS physiology; SYRIANS; REGRESSION analysis; ADIPOSE tissues; BODY composition; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; OBESITY; RESEARCH; SKINFOLD thickness; STATISTICS; STATURE; EVALUATION research; WAIST-hip ratio
- Publication
Journal of Biosocial Science, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 5, p647
- ISSN
0021-9320
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1017/S0021932015000413