Nwoye measured the body surface area of adult males from Nigeria. He found that the measured area was 6-22% greater than that predicted by other algorithms. He derived an equation for predicting the body surface area of adult African males.
Parameters:
(1) height in centimeters
(2) weight in kilograms
body surface area in square meters =
= 0.001315 * ((height in cm)^(1.2139)) * ((body weight in kg)^(0.2620))
The SEE was +/- 0.04815.
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