fat percentage

collocation in English

meaningsoffatandpercentage

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fat
noun
uk
/fæt/us
/fæt/
the substance under the skin of humans and animals that stores energy and keeps ...
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percentage
noun
uk
/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us
/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition offatandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The abdominalfatpercentage(afp) was obtained by the ratio of abdominal fat weight to total body weight.
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Asfatpercentageis itself a ratio we focused on untransformed values but showed also the results for log-transformed values.
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For analysis of organ and tissue weights except forfatpercentageand carcass percentage, body weight was fitted as a covariate.
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The different consequences forfatpercentagewere rather unexpected, because of the high correlation between body weight and protein amount.
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There has been no other study in mice that directly compared correlated effects onfatpercentageof a selection on body weight and on protein amount.
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More importantly, it has a lowerfatpercentage(30 to 40%).
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Levels of the hormone are inversely correlated with bodyfatpercentagein adults, while the association in infants and young children is less clear.
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Female athletes tend to have lower body weight, lowerfatpercentage, and higher incidence of asthma than their less active peers.
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Older individuals are found to have a lower body density for the same skinfold measurements, which is assumed to signify a higher bodyfatpercentage.
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Bodyfatpercentagerecommendations are higher for females, as this fat may serve as an energy reserve for pregnancy.
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These measurements are converted to an estimated bodyfatpercentageby an equation.
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Bodyfatpercentagerecommendations are higher for females, as this may serve as an energy reserve for pregnancy.
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As fat and muscle conduct electricity differently, this method can provide a direct measurement of the bodyfatpercentage, in relation to muscle mass.
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A number of methods are available for determining bodyfatpercentage, such as measurement with calipers or through the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis.
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The minimum recommended total bodyfatpercentageexceeds the essentialfatpercentagevalue reported above.
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By making thickness measurements at multiple sites on the body you can calculate the estimated bodyfatpercentage.
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Consequently, the bodyfatpercentagecalculated from skin folds or other anthropometric methods carries the cumulative error from the application of two separate statistical models.
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