Population
94 women (mean age 27.4 +/- 6.7 years, mean body mass 60.3 +/- 8.4 kg)
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Questions standard body mass ratio scaling for VO2max in women; hypothesis-generating for allometric or lean-mass approaches in fitness assessment.
Expressing VO2max relative to total body mass penalizes heavier women due to larger percent body fat, not lean body mass, suggesting ratio scaling by body mass may be appropriate if excess fatness is considered undesirable.
Vanderburgh et al. (1996) studied this question.
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