Body composition analyses
Aspects of body composition such as amount and distribution of body fat as well as amount and composition of lean body mass are now understood to be important outcomes in adults, infants, and children . Body composition is a key component of health for both in dividuals and populations. A perpetual epidemic of obesity in adults and children dem onstrated the importance of body fat measurements for health short and long term. Body composition measurements predict body fat from body parameters and measurements. All techniques suffer from methodological and assumption error by which data is converted to the end results . The multitude of this error varies between techniques. The most accessible method for measuring body composition is skin fold assessment which may use a three, four, and s...