Comparison of methods of estimating body fat in normal subjects and cancer patients

摘要: Total body fat can be indirectly estimated by the following noninvasive techniques: determination of lean mass measurement potassium or water, and density underwater weighing skinfold measurements. The total nitrogen neutron activation provides another technique for estimating hence fat. also combined with in a two compartment model from which estimate derived. All above techniques are subject to various errors based on number assumptions, some incompletely validated. These were applied population normal subjects group cancer patients. advantages disadvantages each method discussed terms their ability