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Table 1 Summary of participant’s characteristics in the meta-analyses

From: Assessment of correlation between conventional anthropometric and imaging-derived measures of body fat composition: a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of observational studies

 

Imaging method

Characteristics

MRI

DXA

No. of studies

23a

20

No. of participants

15,130

27,426

Age group, %

  

< 18 years

2.5

1.4

\(\ge\)18 years

97.5

98.6

Male,%

89.8

83.1

BMI rangeb, kg/m2

22.0–35.0

17.7–33.3

Ethnicity, %

  

White

96.1

95.1

Non-White

3.9

4.9

Study setting, %

  

Community

89.1

98.1

Hospital

8.5

1.5

Unspecified

2.4

0

  1. a. The number of unique studies included was 22. The study by Kulberg et al., 2007 was included as two studies with distinct age groups (mixed younger adults and elderly adults)
  2. b. mean or median according to what was reported in the study