Aerospace medicine and human performance
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Aerosp Med Hum Perform · Sep 2019
Body Composition Comparison of Upper- and Underclass Reserve Officers' Training Corps Cadets.
UND (N = 21) and UPP (N = 15) Air Force ROTC cadets volunteered for this study. BIS was used to measure fat mass percentage (FM%), fat free mass percentage (FFM%), total body water percentage (TBW%), extracellular fluid percentage (ECF%), and intracellular fluid percentage (ICF%). Separate one-way ANOVAs were run between UND and UPP for all dependent variables with a Bonferroni correction factor. Additionally, a Pearson correlation between abdominal circumference (AC) and FM% was conducted. ⋯ This study observed significant differences in BC across class ranks in ROTC cadets. Findings from this study suggest that due to an increased exposure to ROTC training, UPP cadets have a more ideal body composition (FFM% and FM%) when compared to UND cadets.Johnson QR, Mackey CS, Muddle TD, Smith DB, DeFreitas JM. Body composition comparison of upper- and underclass Reserve Officers Training Corps cadets. Aerosp Med Hum Perform. 2019; 90(9):813-818.