A new PDA based body fat measurement system

Author

Lee, S.M. ; Kwon, S.Y. ; Cho, B.H. ; Kim, I.Y. ; Kim, S.I.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) method has been commonly used for measuring human body composition, especially body fat rate. In this study, we developed PDA based body fat measurement system using BIA method. A regression model for predicting fat free mass (FFM) was developed. Sixty-three weighted stable subjects (53 men, 10 women) aged 20∼32 years old participated in this study. A regression model, FFM = 0.0005*height² - 0.0160*impedance + 0.3920*weight - 0.0684*age - 5.8141*sex + 25.984, was found. The correlation coefficient of body fat rate between our system and HTM1000plus(Bionet™) was 0.928. HTM1000plus was approved from KFDA (Korean Food & Drug Administration) and it was a commercial product. These results indicated that our system is a reliable for estimation of body fat rate.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomedical measurement; electric impedance measurement; regression analysis; reliability; PDA; bioelectrical impedance analysis; body fat measurement system; correlation coefficient; fat free mass prediction; human body composition; regression model; reliability; Aging; Bioelectric phenomena; Biological system modeling; Biomedical measurements; Drugs; Electric potential; Electrodes; Equations; Impedance measurement; Personal digital assistants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering, 2003. IEEE EMBS Asian-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7943-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APBME.2003.1302575

Filename

1302575