Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Plantar Callosities and the Validity of Body Composition Assessment by Bio-impedance in Severely Obese Persons
Brief Summary:
Studies have confirmed the association between plantar callosities and severely obese individuals. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is an increasingly popular tool for estimating body composition because it is easy to use, noninvasive, relatively inexpensive, and can be performed across a wide range of subjects.
Our hypotheses for this study are: (1)plantar callosities influence the body composition measurements obtained by bioelectrical impedance analysis BIA, and (2) BIA underestimates the percentage of body fat compared with air-displacement plethysmography (BodPod).