Accounting for height in indices of body composition during childhood and adolescence

Linda M. O’Keeffe; Abigail Fraser; Laura D Howe

doi:https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15280.1

doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15280.1

Accounting for height in indices of body composition during childhood and adolescence

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Wellcome open research

Volume: 4, Pages: 105 - 105

Published: Jul 5, 2019

Abstract

Correlations of body composition with height vary by age and sex during childhood. Standard approaches to accounting for height in measures of body composition (dividing by height (in meters)2) do not take this into account. Using measures of total body mass (TBM), fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) at ages nine, 11, 13, 15 and 18 years from a longitudinal UK cohort study (ALSPAC), we calculated indices of body...

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Accounting for height in indices of body composition during childhood and adolescence

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doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15280.1

Published Date

Jul 5, 2019

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Wellcome open research

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4

Pages

105 - 105

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