Maddy Czeck, graduate student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Laboratory of Integrative Physiology (LIHP), is the lead author of the publication, “Body fat percent assessment between electrical impedance myography and dual X-ray absorptiometry,” which is published in the American Journal of Human Biology.

The article examines a handheld method, electrical impedance myography (EIM), that determines regional and total body composition against dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). The study comprised of 69 young individuals, and each participant’s total and regional (i.e. upper arms and upper legs) body fat percentage was estimated using EIM and DXA. The study found that EIM produces similar values of total body fat percentage, but was not accurate in the measurement of regional measures of body fat percentage.

Co-authors include Donald R. Dengel, PhD, kinesiology professor and director of the LIHP, and Katie Bisch and Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, graduates from the School of Kinesiology.