ea0038p266 | Obesity, diabetes, metabolism and cardiovascular | SFEBES2015
Boladae Alalade
, Sandra Iwuala
, Ife Odeniyi
, Olufemi Fasanmade
, Augustine Ohwovoriole
Background: Quantifying the body fat percentage (%BF), its scientific and clinical implications is critical to timely intervention as it has been proven to be a better measure of patientÂ’s risk of cardiovascular diseases than the BMI. Several techniques have been developed to assess BF including imaging, DEXA, bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA), and underwater weighing. The use of anthropometric indices to derive %BF provides an inexpensive surrogate. There are very few...