IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0302779.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Associations of body adiposity index, body mass index, waist circumference, and percentage of body fat in young female Emirati adults

Author

Listed:
  • Dalia Haroun
  • Maryam Darwish
  • Aseel Ehsanallah

Abstract

Body Adiposity Index (BAI), which relies on an individual’s hip circumference and height, was proposed as an alternative anthropometric measurement to Body Mass Index (BMI). Although this measure has been validated across different populations, its accuracy in predicting percent body fat (%BF) in the United Arab Emirates has not yet been assessed. The objective of this study was to examine the association between BAI, BMI, Waist Circumference (WC), and %BF in young female Emirati adults and determine the relative accuracy of BAI when predicting %BF. A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted among 95 Emirati women between the ages of 17 and 27. The %BF was measured using the dual-energy X-ray absorption (DXA) scanner. Anthropometric measurements were collected, and BMI and BAI were calculated. BMI and %BF (r = 0.823, p

Suggested Citation

  • Dalia Haroun & Maryam Darwish & Aseel Ehsanallah, 2024. "Associations of body adiposity index, body mass index, waist circumference, and percentage of body fat in young female Emirati adults," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(5), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0302779
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0302779
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302779
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0302779&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0302779?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Robinson Ramírez-Vélez & Jorge Enrique Correa-Bautista & Katherine González-Ruíz & Alejandra Tordecilla-Sanders & Antonio García-Hermoso & Jacqueline Schmidt-RioValle & Emilio González-Jiménez, 2017. "The Role of Body Adiposity Index in Determining Body Fat Percentage in Colombian Adults with Overweight or Obesity," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-12, September.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.

      More about this item

      Statistics

      Access and download statistics

      Corrections

      All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0302779. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

      If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

      If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

      If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

      For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

      Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

      IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.