Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3271271 | Journal of Clinical Densitometry | 2011 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We compared the accuracy of body-composition estimation for 2 commercial single-frequency bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) devices in 200 healthy Chinese adults using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) as criterion methods. We evaluated the fat mass percentage (%FM), skeletal muscle mass percentage (%SM), or total-body bone-free lean mass percentage (%TBBLM), and level of visceral fat mass (VFlevel) using the Omron HBF-359 (SF-BIA8) and Tanita BC-532 (SF-BIA4) BIA devices, MRI, and DXA. Both devices showed a similarly high correlation with DXA for %FM prediction (r = 0.89 for SF-BIA8 and 0.90 for SF-BIA4) and with MRI and DXA for %SM and %TBBLM prediction (r = 0.85 for SF-BIA8 and 0.89 for SF-BIA4). There were small but significant biases in all body-composition parameter evaluations except for %SM assessed by the SF-BIA8. Both the SF-BIA8 and SF-BIA4 provided small, insignificant mean biases but wide limits of agreement with MRI for VFlevel assessments. Both BIA devices can relatively accurately predict %FM and %SM in healthy Chinese adults. The SF-BIA8 is suitable for individual prediction of %SM, whereas the SF-BIA8 is required to eliminate systematic errors in this population by improving population-specific prediction equations from height, weight, and age to increase estimation accuracy.
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Authors
Li Xu, Xiaoguang Cheng, Jiguang Wang, Qiyun Cao, Tetsuya Sato, Maoying Wang, Xingshan Zhao, Wei Liang,