Amber B Courville1, Shanna B Yang2, Sarah Andrus2, Nosheen Hayat2, Anneliese Kuemmerle2, Elizabeth Leahy2, Sara Briker3, Kirsten Zambell2, Stephanie Chung3, Anne E Sumner4. 1. National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Nutrition Department, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Electronic address: courvillea@nih.gov. 2. National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center, Nutrition Department, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 3. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 4. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Minority Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of cardiometabolic disease has risen in Africa and parallels the obesity epidemic. To assess cardiometabolic risk, body composition measurements by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) are ideal. In communities with limited resources, alternative measures may be useful but have not been compared extensively in black Africans. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify alternative methods of body composition assessment, such as body adiposity index (BAI) and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), for use in African-born blacks. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with African-born blacks. BAI and five BIA predictive equations (using variations of height, weight, age, sex, and impedance) were compared with DXA to estimate percent fat. Participants were 266 African-born blacks (39 ± 10 y, body mass index 28 ± 4 kg/m2, and 68% men) living in metropolitan Washington DC. Equivalence (90% confidence interval, -3 to 3), concordance, and Bland-Altman analyses (bias <2%, R2 closest to zero) compared BAI or BIA predictive equations to DXA as the criterion method. RESULTS: DXA percent fat was 27.2% ± 5.5% and 40.3% ± 6.9% in men and women, respectively. BAI underestimated percent fat in men (bias: 1.88 ± 4.71, R2 = 0.25, P < 0.001) and women (bias: 6.47 ± 4.94, R2 = 0.08, P = 0.01). Of the five BIA predictive equations, the equation reported by Sun et al. had the best agreement with DXA percent fat for men (bias: -0.91 ± 3.67, R2 = 0.02, P = 0.05) and women (bias: -0.92 ± 4.02, R2 = 0.003, P = 0.58). Percent fat from the Sun et al. equation best agreed with DXA percent fat. CONCLUSION: BIA with the Sun et al. predictive equation was the best alternative to DXA for body fat assessment in African-born blacks. Published by Elsevier Inc.
OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of cardiometabolic disease has risen in Africa and parallels the obesity epidemic. To assess cardiometabolic risk, body composition measurements by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) are ideal. In communities with limited resources, alternative measures may be useful but have not been compared extensively in black Africans. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify alternative methods of body composition assessment, such as body adiposity index (BAI) and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), for use in African-born blacks. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study with African-born blacks. BAI and five BIA predictive equations (using variations of height, weight, age, sex, and impedance) were compared with DXA to estimate percent fat. Participants were 266 African-born blacks (39 ± 10 y, body mass index 28 ± 4 kg/m2, and 68% men) living in metropolitan Washington DC. Equivalence (90% confidence interval, -3 to 3), concordance, and Bland-Altman analyses (bias <2%, R2 closest to zero) compared BAI or BIA predictive equations to DXA as the criterion method. RESULTS: DXA percent fat was 27.2% ± 5.5% and 40.3% ± 6.9% in men and women, respectively. BAI underestimated percent fat in men (bias: 1.88 ± 4.71, R2 = 0.25, P < 0.001) and women (bias: 6.47 ± 4.94, R2 = 0.08, P = 0.01). Of the five BIA predictive equations, the equation reported by Sun et al. had the best agreement with DXA percent fat for men (bias: -0.91 ± 3.67, R2 = 0.02, P = 0.05) and women (bias: -0.92 ± 4.02, R2 = 0.003, P = 0.58). Percent fat from the Sun et al. equation best agreed with DXA percent fat. CONCLUSION:BIA with the Sun et al. predictive equation was the best alternative to DXA for body fat assessment in African-born blacks. Published by Elsevier Inc.
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African-born blacks; Body adiposity index; Body composition; Cardiometabolic disease; Hologic Discovery dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer
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