Bioelectrical Impedance vs. Four-compartment Model to Assess Body Fat Change in Overweight Adults.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Chouinard, Laura E.; Schoeller, Dale A.; Watras, Abigail C.; Clark, R. Randall; Close, Rachel N.; Buchholz, Andrea C.
- Source
- Obesity (19307381); Jan2007, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p85-92, 8p, 2 Charts, 1 Graph
- Subject
- BIOELECTRIC impedance
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY
FAT
OVERWEIGHT persons
OVERWEIGHT women
OBESITY
- Language
- ISSN
- 19307381
The article discusses a study which investigated whether leg-to-leg bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is sufficiently sensitive versus the reference standard four-compartment (4C) model to detect change in percentage fat mass (%FM) in overweight adults. Leg-to-leg BIA could detect minor changes in %FM with reasonable accuracy in 98 moderately obese women who lost about 8.5% of their body fat. It also found that leg-to-leg BIA may be influenced by variations in the distribution of muscle and fat mass about the body.