Research Article
Accuracy of Anthropometric Equations for Estimating Body Fat in Professional Male Soccer Players Compared with DXA
Table 6
Body fat percentage measured with DXA and estimated with anthropometric equations developed in nonathletic populations.
| | Author equation | Median (25th–75th percentile) |
| | DXA | 14.0 (11.9–16.4) | | Lohman | 8.0 (7.1–8.8) | | Sloan | 8.4 (6.8–10.1) | | Pollock | 8.4 (7.1–10.0) | | Jackson (3SKF) | 8.9 (6.7–12.1) | | Jackson (7SKF) | 9.8 (7.3–12.6) | | Katch | 10.4 (8.7–12.9) | | Eston | 11.0 (9.3–13.0) | | Nagamine | 12.0 (10.4–13.6) | | Wilmore | 13.4 (11.4–15.8) | | Ball | 13.7 (11.5–16.4) | | Lean | 14.5 (11.1–17.3) | | Garcia | 14.9 (11.7–18.2) | | Van der Ploeg | 15.1 (12.5–18.1) | | Durnin-W | 15.3 (12.2–18.1) | | Durnin-R | 15.8 (12.7–18.1) | | Leahy | 16.4 (13.7–19.9) | | Peterson | 17.9 (15.1–20.5) |
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3SKF, three skinfolds; 7SKF, seven skinfolds; DXA, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Different compared with DXA. ; . |
