Erratum
for Friedl et al., Am J Clin Nutr 73 (2) 268-275.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 76, No. 3, 695,
September 2002
© 2002 American Society for Clinical Nutrition
Erratum
Friedl KE, Westphal KA, Marchitelli LJ, Patton JF, Chumlea WC, Guo SS. Evaluation of anthropometric equations to assess body-composition changes in young women. Am J Clin Nutr 2001;73:268–75.
It is incorrectly reported in the Abstract that the women gained 2.5 kg fat-free mass, rather than the 2.0 kg correctly reported in Table 2 and discussed in the text. In Table 3, the equation of Jackson et al (23) is incomplete, and the coefficients provided are wrong. Readers are unable to calculate a meaningful value from this equation and cannot determine which equation from the cited paper was used. Friedl et al actually used the first of the 18 equations published in Jackson et al’s article (see below), and this was their intention. Friedl et al have verified that the calculations were done correctly in the master data set and that their analyses were appropriately based on these calculations. The correct equation is
Friedl et al regret the inconvenience that these errors may have caused their readership.
