Creatinine-Weight Coefficient as a Measurement of Obesity
- 1 September 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Applied Physiology
- Vol. 8 (2), 135-138
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jappl.1955.8.2.135
Abstract
The creatinine-weight coefficient (CWC) was moderately and negatively correlated with measured fat in a series of healthy adult males. High values of the CWC (26.9- x) correctly identified the leaner men, but low values (x-18.7) did not effectively distinguish the fatter men. A small group of men, with repeatably low creatinine excretion contributed to the "triangular" nature of the distributions, and lowered the correlations.Keywords
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