Evaluation of modified multicompartment models to calculate body composition in healthy males
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The purpose of this study was to develop flexible and accurate multicompartment equations to calculate body composition and compare the results with methods using common two-compartment equations. Twenty-two healthy male volunteers 22-59 y of age were studied. Body volume was measured by underwater weighing (UWW) or with a skinfold caliper, bone mineral by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and body water by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). The percentage of water and bone mineral in fat-free mass (FFM) had a significant effect on the difference in percentage fat obtained by the two-compartment model compared with a four-compartment model. FFM density was negatively (r = -0.76, P < 0.001) and percentage water in FFM was positively correlated with age (r = 0.75, P < 0.001). The three-compartment model based on field-adapted methods (skinfold thickness + BIA) to calculate percentage body fat correlated significantly with the more complex four-compartment model (UWW + BIA + DXA; r = 0.95, P < 0.001). The advantages of three- and four-compartment equations are that they compensate for differences in body content of bone mineral and water.
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Multi-compartment models have the ability to distinguish multiple tissue components, which reduces the assumptions from which body composition estimates are based and increases the accuracy.
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- Authors
- Forslund, A., Johansson, A., Sjödin, A., Bryding, G., Ljunghall, S., & Hambraeus, L.
- Affiliations
- Uppsala University (SE)
- ORCID
- Sjödin, A
- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 856-862
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2117766380
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Muscle metabolism and nutrition
- Keywords
- body composition, multi-compartment model, three-compartment model, four-compartment model, two-compartment model, body water content, bone mineral content, body fat percentage, skinfold thickness, bioelectrical impedance analysis, underwater weighing, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, healthy men
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Body Composition, Body Water, Body Weight, Humans, Immersion, Lipids, Male, Middle Aged, Models, Biological, Skinfold Thickness, Absorptiometry, Photon, Bone Density, Body Mass Index, Electric Impedance
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