TY - JOUR
T1 - Editorial: Body composition assessment techniques in clinical and epidemiological settings: Development, validation and use in dietary programs, physical training and sports.
AU - da, Costa RF
AU - Nogueira, RC
AU - Fisberg, M
AU - Ferrari, G
PY - 2023/1/31
Y1 - 2023/1/31
N2 - 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
AB - 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
U2 - 10.3389/fnut.2023.1146553
DO - 10.3389/fnut.2023.1146553
M3 - Editorial
C2 - 36798656
SN - 2296-861X
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Frontiers in Nutrition
JF - Frontiers in Nutrition
ER -
