Body composition: What's new?

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 427-433

  Kyle, Ursula G ^a   Genton, Laurence ^a   Pichard, Claude ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fat mass; Fat free mass; Nutritional assessment

Indexed keywords

AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EVALUATION; FAT CONTENT; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; NUTRITIONAL PARAMETERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036633922     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00075197-200207000-00012     Document Type: Review

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