Abstract
A valid clinically applicable anthropometric method to estimate body fat and lean body mass in adults would aid in the epidemiological study of diseases associatedwith overweight. Such a method has been developed from anthropometric measurements of 2053 healthy Caucasian men and women and Negro men between the ages of 25 and 44 years and from laboratory determinations of body density and total body water for 8 per cent of all subjects. This is the subject of the following report [45]. Successful employment of this method depends upon exact duplication of the measurement techniques. The anthropometric measurements have been detailed for reproducibility by interested clinicians. Methods used to study additional parameters associated with body composition are given: diet, physical activity and somatotype. Potassium-40 and cesium-137 techniques have been described. Subsequent papers will present results and interrelationships of the several studied factors.
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