Body fat estimates from bioelectrical impedance equations in cardiovascular risk assessment: The PREVEND cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To investigate prospectively the association of body fat percentage (BF%) estimates using various equations from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) with cardiovascular events, compared with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference.

Methods and results

We used data of 34 BIA-BF%-equations that were used for estimation of BF% in 6486 (men = 3194, women = 3294) subjects. During a median follow-up of 8.3 years, 510 (7.9%) cardiovascular events (363 in men; 147 in women) occurred. In men, the crude hazard ratio (95% confidence interval) for BF% from the best predicting BIA-BF%-equation was 3.97 (3.30-4.78) against 2.13 (1.85-2.45) for BF% from the BIA device's BIA-BF%-equation, 1.34 (1.20-1.49) for BMI and 1.49 (1.40-1.73) for waist circumference per log-1-SD increa

SUBMITTER: Byambasukh O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545622 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature