%0 Journal Article %T An¨¢lise comparativa de m¨¦todos de avalia£¿£¿o da composi£¿£¿o corporal em homens sadios e em pacientes com doen£¿a pulmonar obstrutiva cr£¿nica: antropometria, impedancia bioel¨¦trica e absortiometria de raios-X de dupla energia %A Forte Freitas %A Ismael %A Rupp de Paiva %A S¨¦rgio Alberto %A Godoy %A Irma %A Smaili Santos %A Suhaila Mahmoud %A Campana %A ¨¢lvaro Oscar %J Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrici¨®n %D 2005 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X comparative analysis of body composition assessment methods in healthy men and in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: anthropometry, bioelectrical impedance and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry. the aim of this study was to examine the agreement between the results of body fat (bf and bf%), fat-free mass (ffm) and ffm index (ffmi= ffm/height2) as estimated by skinfold anthropometry (ant), bioelectrical impedance (bia) and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (dxa) in two groups of men (3 50 y), one comprising healthy individuals (n=23) and the other, patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) (n=24). comparisons between body composition techniques were done by repeated measures anova; the bland & altman procedure was used to analyse agreement. results and conclusions: 1) comparison between healthy and copd groups showed significant differences between all studied variables; 2) in the healthy group, values for bf, bf% , ffm and ffmi were not significantly different when bia or ant was compared to dxa; however, in copd, values for bf and bf% were significantly higher and for ffm and ffmi significantly lower when bia was compared to dxa; in contrast, no differences were shown between values for these variables when ant was compared with dxa; 3) bland & altman test, in both groups, showed no agreement between bia and dxa and between ant and dxa; it was also shown that body fat was overestimated and fat free mass underestimated by bia in relation to dxa. %K bioelectric impedance %K dual energy x-ray absorptiometry %K anthropometry %K fat-free mass %K fat mass %K copd.. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-06222005000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en