adipose: BMI and Visceral Adipose Tissue Mass

In speegled/fosdata: Data for use with the book "Probability, Statistics, and Data: A Fresh Approach Using R", by Darrin Speegle and Bryan Clair

BMI and Visceral Adipose Tissue Mass

Description

Measurements of BMI and adipose tissue for adults.

Usage

adipose

Format

A data frame with 81 observations of 12 variables.

sex

Male or Female

health

Description of general health of participant

age

age in years

ldl

LDL cholesterol in mmol/L

hdl

HDL cholesterol in mmol/L

trig

Triglycerides in mmol/L

glucose

Blood glucose in mmol/L

stature_cm

height in centimeters

waist_cm

waist measurement in cm

hips_cm

hips measurement in cm

vat

visceral adipose tissue fat mass in grams

bmi

body mass index kg/m^2

Details

The response variables of interest in this study were BMI and VAT. According to the authors of the study, the VAT measurements of 5 or lower are suspect and may need to be excluded.

From the authors: "The aims of this study were (a) to compare five anthropometric predictors of precent FM and VAT mass, and (b) to explore new cut-points for the best of these predictors to improve the characterisation of obesity."

Source

Swainson MG, Batterham AM, Tsakirides C, Rutherford ZH, Hind K (2017) Prediction of whole-body fat percentage and visceral adipose tissue mass from five anthropometric variables. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0177175. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177175

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