Nature

Body composition in young female eating-disorder patients with severe weight loss and controls: evidence from the four-component model and evaluation of DXA

Whether fat-free mass (FFM) and its components are depleted in eating-disorder (ED) patients is uncertain. Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely used to assess body composition in pediatric ...
Nature

Evaluation of DXA against the four-component model of body composition in obese children and adolescents aged 5–21 years

Body composition is increasingly measured in pediatric obese patients. Although dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely available, and is precise, its accuracy for body composition assessment ...
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AMRA Medical’s Muscle Composition Analysis Used to Evaluate the Effect of Liraglutide Treatment in Obesity

Results from a randomized, double-blind trial in diabetes-free adults living with obesity and high cardiovascular disease risk showed that liraglutide was associated with a reduction in both muscle ...
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U.S. Army to evaluate relationship between body composition and physical fitness

FORT EUSTIS, VA – The U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training (USACIMT), together with the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), is leading the facilitation of a ...
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Evaluation of kidney function and body composition in adult survivors of unilateral, non-metastatic, non-syndromic Wilms tumor: A report from the St. Jude Lifetime Cohort Study.

Effect of oncolytic herpes simplex virus on fusion-positive rhabdomyosarcoma to radiotherapy.
BMJ

089 Risk factors for shoulder pain in junior flatwater kayak athletes

Background Shoulder injuries are common among flatwater kayak athletes and are predominantly characterised by features of overuse. Objective This study investigated whether body composition and ...