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Source: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Summary:
Premenopausal women were divided into those with the more common lower body fat distribution and those with upper body fat distribution
Subjects' body fat was determined by underwater weighing, then tested for comparison by skinfold and circumference (anthro) and bioelectrical impedance (BIA) methods
Anthro and BIA methods tended to be accurate for those with lower body fat distribution but overestimated percent body fat in those with upper body distribution
Conclusion:
Several common tests of percent body fat are inaccurate for women with upper body fat distribution pattern
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