Toward body composition reference data for infants, children, and adolescents

Advances in Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 320S-329S

  Wells, Jonathan C K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHOTON ABSORPTIOMETRY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REFERENCE VALUE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ABSORPTIOMETRY, PHOTON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFERENCE VALUES; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

EID: 84910154890     PISSN: 21618313     EISSN: 21565376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/an.113.005371     Document Type: Article

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