SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
The accuracy and precision of DXA for assessing body composition in team sport athletes.
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- This validation study tested how precisely pencil-beam and fan-beam DXA estimate fat, fat-free soft tissue and bone mineral measurements.
- Who / model studied
- Thirty-six professional Australian Football players were split across fan-beam (22) and pencil-beam (25) scan groups; a known-value whole-body phantom was also tested.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Players underwent two consecutive DXA scans. The phantom was scanned 20 times on each device; there was no drug exposure or treatment comparator.
- What the study found
- Fat-free soft tissue precision was strong (%CV 0.3% fan; 0.5% pencil), but percent-fat reliability was weaker (%CV 2.5% and 5.7%). Fat-mass correlations with the phantom were only moderate.
- Limitations & context
- This was a lean, male professional-sport sample. Repeatability does not prove perfect accuracy, and fat mass differed moderately from criterion values.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2014.926380