Body composition in clinical practice
Highlights • Nutritional status is the results of nutrients intake, absorption and utilization, able to influence physiological/pathological conditions. • Obesity is a worldwide epidemic, there is an increasing interest for body composition study to monitor conditions and delay in development of obe...
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Veröffentlicht in: | European journal of radiology 2016-08, Vol.85 (8), p.1461-1468 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Highlights • Nutritional status is the results of nutrients intake, absorption and utilization, able to influence physiological/pathological conditions. • Obesity is a worldwide epidemic, there is an increasing interest for body composition study to monitor conditions and delay in development of obesity-related diseases. • The need of standard assessment of nutritional status based on body weight changes, playing an important role in several clinical setting in pathologic condition and illnesses. • Since body mass index has been shown to be an imprecise measurement of fat-free and fat mass, body cell mass and fluids, providing no information if weight changes is better way to evaluate body composition. • Nutritional status can be measured with different techniques and monitoring body composition can be very useful for nutritional and medical interventional. • This review is focused on the use of Body Composition in Clinical Practice. |
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ISSN: | 0720-048X 1872-7727 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ejrad.2016.02.005 |