Table 2.

Agreement between DXA-determined percent body fat and values given by anthropometric equations for walkers (n = 7) and non-walkers (n = 7).

		Mean bias in % fat (anthropometry- DXA; mean ± SD)	p-value for bias	95% limits of agreement (Bland and Altman)
				Lower	Upper	Range
Walkers	Sloan and Weir, 1970	−9.0±2.6%	< 0.01*	−14.0	−4.0	10.0
	Durnin and Womersley, 1974	−4.2±3.8%	0.03*	−11.6	+3.3	14.9
	Lean et al., 1996	−2.1±3.9%	0.21	−9.7	+5.5	15.3
	Gallagher et al., 2000	−5.1±5.3%	0.04*	−15.5	+5.3	20.8
	Pongchaiyakul et al., 2005	−7.7±5.0%	< 0.01*	−17.5	+2.1	19.6
Non-walkers	Sloan and Weir, 1970	−10.6±4.5%	< 0.01*	−19.4	−1.78	17.6
	Durnin and Womersley, 1974	−8.3±4.8%	< 0.01*	−17.7	+1.1	18.8
	Lean et al., 1996	−10.6±7.4%	< 0.01*	−25.1	+3.9	29.0
	Gallagher et al., 2000	−13.7±7.5%	< 0.01*	−28.4	+1.0	29.4
	Pongchaiyakul et al., 2005	−13.6±6.5%	< 0.01*	−26.3	−0.9	25.5

Eq., Equations; SD, Standard Deviation. Significant differences are indicated with

^*at a significant level of P < 0.05.