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Flashcards by Mamie Cooper, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mamie Cooper
over 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Hyperplasia | increase in cell number |
| Hypertrophy | Increase in cell size |
| Adinopectin | hormone made by fat cells- enhances burning fat and sugars as weight increases, adinopectin declines |
| BMI | Measures relative weight for height underweight=18.5 overweight=25-29.9 obese=30+ |
| Why BMI is a flawed system | does not differentiate btw types of tissues Muscle heavier than fat bone structures more dense than others more error if you are very short or very tall |
| Ways of assessing body composition | Fatfold Hydrodensitometry Bioelectrical impedence Air displacement plethysmography Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) |
| Ways of estimating body composition | Hydrostatic (underwater-most accurate) Air displacement (BODPOD) Skinfold DEXA |
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