Validation of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Adolescents Across Different Ethnic Groups

• Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 1252 - 1259
• Main Authors: Haroun, Dalia, Taylor, Stephanie J.C, Viner, Russell M, Hayward, Rachel S, Darch, Tegan S, Eaton, Simon, Cole, Tim J, Wells, Jonathan C.K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2010
• Subjects: adiposity; Adolescent; Adolescent Development - physiology; adolescents; Anthropometry - instrumentation; Anthropometry - methods; Asians; bioelectrical impedance; Blacks; Body Composition - physiology; body mass index; body water; Body Water - metabolism; Body Water - physiology; Child; deuterium; Deuterium - pharmacokinetics; deuterium oxide; Electric Impedance; equations; Ethnicity - statistics & numerical data; Female; females; girls; Humans; Leg; linear models; Male; males; Models, Theoretical; obesity; prediction; Saliva - chemistry; Saliva - metabolism; Whites

Adolescent obesity is difficult to assess in multi-ethnic populations using BMI, due to variability in the BMI–fatness relationship. We aimed to describe body composition (BC), and to validate leg–leg bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), in adolescents from different ethnic groups using deuterium...