Estimation of Total Body Fat from Potassium-40 Content
- 16 June 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 133 (3468), 1917
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.133.3468.1917
Abstract
A brief review is given of the development of methods for the determination of total body potassium by whole-body scintillation counting and of studies to establish the utility of body potassium as a measure of gross body composition including fat.Keywords
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