MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF TOTAL-BODY FAT

Though it has been established that skinfold anthropometry has severe limitations as a method of deriving total body fat (TBF), the possibil ity that the problem might be related more to the assumptions implicit in densitometry has to be addressed. This paper suggests that smaller residual errors might be obtained if sums of skinfolds are regressed against TBF measured by a difference technique (IVNAA + (H2O)-H-3 dilu tion), suggesting that the latter may perhaps be a better standard tha n densitometry. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.