<b>Comparison between different methods for assessment of body fatness in brazilian elite cyclists</b> - doi: 10.4025/reveducfis.v23i3.14283
Abstract
The objective of the study was to compare different methods to estimate body fatness in elite athletes. The sample was compost for 15 male elite athletes with mean age of 28.6 years. Body fatness was estimated by skinfold (EDC), bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) and dual-energy X-ray absorptometry (DEXA) (reference). Paired t tests compared the differences among the methods and the intraclass correlation coefficient to analyze the relationship between them. BIA (p= 0.029) overestimated the body fatness provided by DEXA, but not EDC (p= 0.094). Therefore, it is possible to conclude that EDC presented body fatness similar to DEXA.
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