The purpose of this study was to assess relative total body fat and skinfold patterning in Filipino national karate and pencak silat athletes. Participants were members of the Philippine men's and women's national teams in karate (12 males, 5 females) and pencak silat (17 males and 5 females). In addition to age, the following anthropometric measurements were taken: height, body mass, triceps, ...

BACKGROUND Validity and reliability of skinfold equations in estimating body fat in Chinese Children has not been documented. OBJECTIVE Using Air Displacement Plethysmography (ADP) as a criterion, the validity and reliability of skinfold (SKF) measurement in predicting percent body fat (% fat) of Chinese children in Hong Kong were evaluated. DESIGN 230 Chinese children in Hong Kong were rec...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown a negative association between body mass index (BMI) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA), a commonly used serum marker for the detection and diagnosis of prostate cancer. We have examined the association between several anthropometric measures and PSA in a nationally representative sample of men. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2001-2004 National Health ...

OBJECTIVES As a secondary analysis of the BEACHeS study, we hypothesised there would be sex differences in Pakistani and Bangladeshi school children when examining adiposity and their response to an obesity intervention. DESIGN The Birmingham healthy Eating and Active lifestyle for CHildren Study (BEACHeS) was designed as a Phase II feasibility study of a complex intervention. SETTING 8 pri...

BACKGROUND The role of physical activity in preventing obesity during adolescence remains unknown. We examined changes in activity in relation to changes in body-mass index (BMI) and adiposity in a cohort of 1152 black and 1135 white girls from the USA, who were followed up prospectively from ages 9 or 10 to 18 or 19 years. METHODS BMI and sum of skinfold thickness were assessed annually, whe...

purpose the aim of this study was to evaluate predictor variables of race time in female ultra-endurance inliners in the longest inline race in europe. methods we investigated the association between anthropometric and training characteristics and race time for 16 female ultra-endurance inline skaters, at the longest inline marathon in europe, the ‘inline one-eleven’ over 111 km in switzerland,...

The skinfold caliper is a non-invasive anthropometric technique regularly used to assess the nutritional status of clinical and non-clinical individual samples for evaluation of body composition percentage. A skinfold caliper allows obtaining important anthropometrical data using a simple and portable tool, with a non-invasive and cost-effective procedure. Using regression equations, the skinfo...

Background: Skinfold-thickness measurements are commonly obtained for the indirect assessment of body composition. Objective: We developed new skinfold-thickness equations by using a 4-compartment model as the reference. Additionally, we compared our new equations with the Durnin and Womersley and Jackson and Pollock skinfold-thickness equations to evaluate each equation’s validity and precisio...

BACKGROUND The associations of different components of body mass with disease outcomes are not well defined. OBJECTIVE We investigated the effects of body composition on risk of death from cardiac causes and cancer in adult men. DESIGN Middle-aged men (n = 7608) in the Paris Prospective Study were followed up for 15 y. At study entry, the following measurements were obtained: sagittal diame...

OBJECTIVES To assess the consequences on body composition of increasing birth weight in Indian babies in relation to reported values in Western babies, and to assess the relationship between maternal and neonatal anthropometry and body composition. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Bangalore City, India. SUBJECTS A total of 712 women were recruited at 12.5+/-3.1 weeks of ges...