论文信息 - Body adiposity index, body mass index, and body fat in white and black adults.

Body adiposity index, body mass index, and body fat in white and black adults.

To the Editor: Body mass index (BMI) is widely used as a proxy for body fat and has been shown to correlate with other measures of adiposity.1 However, its use is limited by differences in body fatness for a given BMI across age, sex, and race.2–3 To address this limitation, Bergman et al. developed the body adiposity index (BAI) in samples of Mexican-Americans and blacks.4 However, no sex-specific information was provided, and it is unknown how well BAI performs in whites. We investigated the sex-specific relationship between both BMI and BAI and body fat in white and black adults.

S. Heymsfield | A. Staiano | P. Katzmarzyk | T. Barreira | D. Harrington

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[3] G. Bray,et al. Racial differences in abdominal depot-specific adiposity in white and African American adults. , 2010, The American journal of clinical nutrition.

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