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What kind of Relationship is Between Body Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage?

Authors: Aleksandar Kupusinac, Edita Stokić, Enes Sukić, Olivera Rankov, Andrea Katić

Published in: Journal of Medical Systems | Issue 1/2017

Abstract

Although body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (B F %) are well known as indicators of nutritional status, there are insuficient data whether the relationship between them is linear or not. There are appropriate linear and quadratic formulas that are available to predict B F % from age, gender and BMI. On the other hand, our previous research has shown that artificial neural network (ANN) is a more accurate method for that. The aim of this study is to analyze relationship between BMI and B F % by using ANN and big dataset (3058 persons). Our results show that this relationship is rather quadratic than linear for both gender and all age groups. Comparing genders, quadratic relathionship is more pronounced in women, while linear relationship is more pronounced in men. Additionaly, our results show that quadratic relationship is more pronounced in old than in young and middle-age men and it is slightly more pronounced in young and middle-age than in old women.

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Title: What kind of Relationship is Between Body Mass Index and Body Fat Percentage?
Authors: Aleksandar Kupusinac
Edita Stokić
Enes Sukić
Olivera Rankov
Andrea Katić
Publication date: 01-01-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Medical Systems / Issue 1/2017
Print ISSN: 0148-5598
Electronic ISSN: 1573-689X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-016-0636-9

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