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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Article; Bia; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3748182; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23666898; https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.20125

We aimed 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); a...