Diferencias sexuales en la cantidad y distribución de grasa corporal en universitarios de la Comunidad Autónoma Vasca

ANSÓTEGUI ALDAY, Laura
; ARROYO IZAGA, Marta
; FERNÁNDEZ, Junkal
; HERRERA, Héctor
; MUÑOZ, María Jesús
; REBATO OCHOA, Esther
; ROCANDIO PABLO, Ana María
; SALCES BETI, Itziar

Publication year:

2005

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-010-2

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

A study has been carried out of the relation between the amount of body ; fat and its pattern of distribution in 159 men and 390 women university students, living in the Basque Autonomous Community. In the central subjects, particularly in the case of women, increases in the average readings of the body mass index are observed, and also in the waist-hip ratio and in the total adiposity index, with respect to peripheral subjects.