BMI and an Anthropometry-Based Estimate of Fat Mass Percentage Are Both Valid Discriminators of Cardiometabolic Risk: A Comparison with DXA and Bioimpedance

Table 3

Values in fat mass percentage (FM%) for the method-specific percentile corresponding to BMI percentiles at BMI 25 and 30, respectively.

	FM% cutoffs corresponding to BMI 25				FM% cut-offs corresponding to BMI 30
	Men		Women		Men		Women
Method^a/age-group	<60	≥60 y	<60	≥60 y	<60	≥60 y	<60	≥60 y
DXA	24.0	26.1	36.7	34.7	32.3	37.5	44.0	43.8
BIA InBody^b	19.3	23.0	31.5	31.9	28.7	34.0	38.7	40.8
FM%-equation^c	24.0	26.3	35.3	37.4	30.1	31.7	41.6	43.8

aMethod of measurement, based on which participants are classified in categories of obesity.
bEstimation of FM% with bioimpedance device InBody (720) (Biospace, Korea).
cAnthropometry-based estimation of FM%; arithmetic mean of FM% estimates according to prediction methods Deurenberg et al. [12], Gallagher et al. [15], and Larsson et al. [14].