Standards for total body fat and fat-free mass in infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 74, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1996, Pages 386-399

  De Bruin, Niels C ^a   Van Velthoven, Karin A M ^a   De Ridder, Maria ^b   Stijnen, Theo ^b   Juttmann, Rikard E ^b   Degenhart, Herman J ^a   Visser, Henk K A ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Centile standards; Infant body composition; total body electrical conductivity

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030058174     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.74.5.386     Document Type: Article

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