Association of body fat ratio with anthropometric and lipid parameters measured by two different technique in obese persons

Abstract

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of body fat ratio with anthropometric and lipid parameters with measured by two different techniques in obese persons.
Materials and methods: Forty obese or morbid obese patients (15 males, 25 females; mean age 41.6±13.2 year; range 18 to 65 years) attend in Sakarya University Education and Training Hospital Family Medicine Clinics were included to the study. The body fat percentage was measured by bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and body mass index (BMI).
Results: Mean BMI was 35.9±5.2 kg/m2 and 10 participants (25%) were morbidly obese. The mean body fat percentage of participants was 38.7±8.0. This percentage was 42.6±5.8% in female and 31.6±6.4% in male (z= -3.921; p=0.000). Moreover only height and weight were correlated with BMI but waist circumference. On the other hand none of the anthropological measurement were correlate with BIA. According to biochemical parameters none of them were correlated with BMI. Only HDL-cholesterol was significantly correlated with BIA.
Conclusion: Although abdominal obesity was one of the important risk factor for cardiovascular disease none or the techniques show correlation between waist circumferences. More over none of the biochemical (except HDL-cholesterol in BIA) do not show correlation with body fat.