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Published in final edited form as: Obes Res Clin Pract. 2009 Nov 1;3(4):209. doi: 10.1016/j.orcp.2009.03.005

Table 2.

Correlation between anthropometric parameters and body and truncal fat measured by Dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).

Anthropometric Parameter	Participants	Body Fat Mass [kg]			Truncal Fat Mass [kg]
Anthropometric Parameter	Participants	Baseline	After Weight Loss	Change	Baseline	After Weight Loss	Change
Waist circumference (WC) [cm]	Female	0.596	0.738	0.416	0.777	0.846	0.563
	Male	0.864	0.937	0.577	0.766	0.939	0.509
	Combined	0.333	0.534	0.445	0.625	0.757	0.488
Weight [kg]	Female	0.891	0.916	0.441	0.812	0.871	0.636
	Male	0.906	0.921	0.483	0.724	0.843	0.508
	Combined	0.552	0.650	0.447	0.652	0.749	0.541
Body Mass Index (BMI) [kg/m²]	Female	0.766	0.829	0.445	0.660	0.751	0.625
	Male	0.911	0.944	0.485	0.702	0.898	0.426
	Combined	0.765	0.832	0.455	0.656	0.776	0.514