Current Status of Body Composition Assessment in Sport

By T. Ackland, T. Lohman, J. Sundgot-Borgen, R. Maughan, N. Meyer, A. Stewart, W. Müller. Sports Medicine, 2012

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Subfields: Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physiology

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Citations in the corpus

• American College of Sports Medicine Joint Position Statement. Nutrition and Athletic Performance. (2016, positive): “Skinfold measurement and other anthropometric data serve as an excellent surrogate measure of adiposity and muscularity when profiling composition changes in response to training interventions.(20) However, it should be noted that the standardization of skinfold sites, measurement techniques, and ca”
• Methodology review: using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for the assessment of body composition in athletes and active people. (2015, methodology): “For further discussions of the validity of DXA estimates of body composition, the reader is referred to separate review papers (Ackland et al., 2012; T. G. Lohman et al., 2000; Toombs et al., 2011).”