Simple anthropometrics are more correlated with health variables than are estimates of body composition in Yup'ik people.

• Published in: Obesity
• Main Authors: Bray, Maria, Pomeroy, Jeremy, Knowler, William C, Bersamin, Andrea, Hopkins, Scarlett, Brage, Søren, Stanhope, Kimber, Havel, Peter J, Boyer, Bert B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2013
• Subjects: Adipose Tissue; Body Fluid Compartments; Humans; Cardiovascular Diseases; Metabolic Diseases; Obesity; Water; Anthropometry; Waist-Hip Ratio; Linear Models; Risk Factors; Reproducibility of Results; Sex Factors; Health Status; Body Composition; Electric Impedance; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; 80 and over; Middle Aged; Inuits; Alaska; Female; Male; Waist Circumference; Young Adult; MD Multidisciplinary; Endocrinology & Metabolism; Bia; inuits; Yup'ik
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6612c9ng

To (1) evaluate the relationships between several indices of obesity with obesity-related risk factors; (2) compare the accuracy of body composition estimates derived from anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis (BIA) to estimates of body composition assessed by doubly-labeled water (DLW); and (3) e...