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VALIDITY OF USING WAIST AND HIP CIRCUMFERENCE MEASUREMENTS TO DETERMINE BODY COMPOSITION OF YOUNG SYRIAN MEN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2016

Mahfouz Al-Bachir  and
Husam Ahmad
Mahfouz Al-Bachir*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiation Technology, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
Husam Ahmad
Affiliation:
Department of Radiation Technology, Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic
*
1Corresponding author. Email: ascientific@aec.org.sy
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Summary

This study examined the relation between waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHpR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) and triceps skin-fold thickness and percentage body fat in young Syrian men. The aim was to develop equations that can use these anthropometric characteristics to estimate percentage body fat in this group of subjects. A total of 2470 healthy Syrian men aged 18–19 years were enrolled in the study in 2010–2011. The anthropometric characteristics of all subjects were measured. The percentage body fat of 213 of the subjects was determined using the deuterium dilution (DD) technique as a reference method. The validity of using WC, HC, WHpR and WHtR to calculate percentage body fat, in comparison with the reference method (DD technique), was assessed by calculating biases and limits of agreement. The estimates of percentage body fat using ‘WC’ and ‘WC with triceps skin-fold’ measurements ranged from 13.00±5.56% to 14.55±8.63%, and were lower than those determined using the reference method (21.32±6.42%). A better prediction equation is proposed for young adults, based on a multiple linear regression model using WC, HC and WHtR.

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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 48 , Issue 5 , September 2016 , pp. 647 - 657
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press, 2016 

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