{"id":170,"date":"2014-09-17T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-10-03T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T07:25:53","slug":"metrisi-lipoys-me-dermatoptyxometro-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/metrisi-lipoys-me-dermatoptyxometro-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat measurement with Harpenden skinfold calliper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In certain cases, like for instance the presence of a pacemaker or pregnancy, the measurement of body fat using bioelectric impedance is not advisable.<\/p>\n<p>In those cases, the skinfold calliper <strong>is<\/strong> a reliable alternative. <strong>Harpenden<\/strong> is considered the reference skinfold calliper (<strong>gold standard) <\/strong>for measurements of subcutaneous fatty tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, when the measurement is performed correctly it has a high correlation to hydrostatic weighing, which is a valuation method for body fat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In certain cases, like for instance the presence of a pacemaker or pregnancy, the measurement of body fat using bioelectric impedance is not advisable.<\/p>\n<p>In those cases, the skinfold calliper <strong>is<\/strong> a reliable alternative. <strong>Harpenden<\/strong> is considered the reference skinfold calliper (<strong>gold standard) <\/strong>for measurements of subcutaneous fatty tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, when the measurement is performed correctly it has a high correlation to hydrostatic weighing, which is a valuation method for body fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimakopoulosi.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}