Healthy percentage body fat ranges: an approach for developing guidelines based on body mass index123
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KEY WORDS
Obesity
percentage body fat
malnutrition
nutritional assessment
body fat guidelines
body composition
prediction equations
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From the Obesity Research Center, St Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Kashiwa Hospital, Jikei University, Chiba, Japan.
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Presented in part at the 1999 European Congress on Obesity, Milan, Italy.
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