Sexual dimorphism of body composition

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 415-430

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone mass; Fat distribution; Fat mass; Lean mass

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANTIANDROGEN; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL FAT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MINERAL; BONE STRENGTH; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GROWTH PERIOD; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MENOPAUSE; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PARITY; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TURNER SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PUBERTY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOMATOTYPES;

EID: 34548588284     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.04.007     Document Type: Review

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