RT Journal
A1 Barreira TV, Harrington DM, Staiano AE, Heymsfield SB, Katzmarzyk PT
T1 BOdy adiposity index, body mass index, and body fat in white and black adults
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2011
FD August 24
VO 306
IS 8
SP 828
OP 830
DO 10.1001/jama.2011.1189
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2011.1189
AB 
To the Editor: Body mass index (BMI) is widely used as a proxy for body fat and has been shown to correlate with other measures of adiposity.1 However, its use is limited by differences in body fatness for a given BMI across age, sex, and race.2- 3 To address this limitation, Bergman et al4 developed the body adiposity index (BAI) in samples of Mexican-American and black individuals. However, no sex-specific information was provided, and it is unknown how well BAI performs in white individuals. We investigated the sex-specific relationship between both BMI and BAI and body fat in white and black adults.