Assessing Body Composition in Healthy Newborn Infants: Reliability of Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry

Journal of Clinical Densitometry

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-160

  Godang, Kristin ^a   Qvigstad, Elisabeth ^a   Voldner, Nanna ^a   Isaksen, Gunhild A ^a   Frøslie, Kathrine F ^a,b   Nøtthellen, Jacob ^a   Henriksen, Tore ^a   Bollerslev, Jens ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body composition; caliper; DXA; infants; reliability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIMB; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; RELIABILITY; TRUNK; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION DOSE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCANDINAVIA;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; AGE FACTORS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BONE DENSITY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCANDINAVIA; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES;

EID: 77951652474     PISSN: 10946950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocd.2010.01.121     Document Type: Article

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