Body Composition and Metabolic Assessment After Motor Complete Spinal Cord Injury: Development of a Clinically Relevant Equation to Estimate Body Fat.

Background: Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the population with spinal cord injury (SCI), and adipose tissue (AT) is the mediator of the metabolic syndrome. Obesity, however, has been poorly appreciated in SCI because of the lack of sensitivity that body mass index (BMI) conveys for obesity ri...

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Published in:Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Vol. 27; no. 1; pp. 11 - 23
Main Authors: Gater Jr, David R., Farkas, Gary J., Dolbow, David R., Berg, Arthur, Gorgey, Ashraf S.
Format: research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: KnowledgeWorks Global, Ltd Winter2021
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