| dc.creator | Fernandes da Costa, Roberto | |
| dc.creator | Candiota Nogueira, Rossana | |
| dc.creator | Fisberg, Mauro | |
| dc.creator | Ferrari, Gerson Luis de Moraes | |
| dc.date | 2023-03-22T17:46:05Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-03-22T17:46:05Z | |
| dc.date | 2023 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-02T20:30:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-02T20:30:47Z | |
| dc.identifier | http://repositorio.ucm.cl/handle/ucm/4561 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/9274803 | |
| dc.description | Body composition assessment is essential in both clinical and field settings to accurately
describe and monitor nutritional status for a variety of medical conditions and physiological
processes. Patients with cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, as well as sick and
malnourished patients, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and the elderly, are a few examples
among several other diseases that can be assessed by body composition. Body composition
outcomes help evaluate the effectiveness of nutritional interventions, the alterations associated
with growth and disease conditions, and it contributes to the development of personalized
physical training programs (1–3).
There are several techniques for assessing body composition, from simple body indices
based on anthropometric measurements to sophisticated laboratory methods such as magnetic
resonance imaging (4), with the ability to assess different body compartments at different
levels (5, 6). Thus, many studies have been conducted in order to develop and validate
techniques, which can be extremely useful for health professionals to estimate body composition
components such as fat mass, muscle mass, bone mass, and residual mass, or simply fat mass and
fat-free mass (7–10).
The aim of this Research Topic is to address the most recent innovations in body
composition assessment for its application in epidemiological studies, as well as in clinical
practice, providing health professionals with concepts and evidence of its usefulness, while
assisting them with the most appropriate selection of techniques according to the characteristics
of the individuals or groups evaluated. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ | |
| dc.source | Frontiers in Nutrition, 10, 1146553 | |
| dc.subject | Body composition | |
| dc.subject | Fat free mass (FFM), | |
| dc.subject | Fat mass, | |
| dc.subject | Anthropometry | |
| dc.subject | Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) | |
| dc.subject | Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), | |
| dc.subject | Comput(eriz)ed tomography | |
| dc.subject | Air displacement plethsymography | |
| dc.title | Editorial: body composition assessment techniques in clinical and epidemiological settings: development, validation and use in dietary programs, physical training and sports | |
| dc.type | Article | |
