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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 50, 465-473, Copyright © 1989 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Estimation of body fat in healthy Swedish women during pregnancy and lactation

E Forsum, A Sadurskis and J Wager
Department of Medical Nutrition, Huddinge Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Reliable estimates of changes in body fat are important in studies of energy requirements during human reproduction. It is not known if current methods for the estimation of total body fat (TBF) are adequate for this purpose. In this paper earlier reported data from 29 women are used to show how methodology affects estimates of changes in TBF during reproduction. Skinfold thicknesses are also reported and equations relating these measurements to TBF were developed and used to demonstrate how well the skinfold technique could estimate such changes. No correlation was found between changes in body weight and body fat during early pregnancy or between the maternal changes in body weight and body fat over the complete pregnancy. These findings are tentatively explained by changes in the degree of hydration of the body.


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