Body mass index and body composition with deuterium in Costa Rican Children

Autor:	Eugenia Ma. Quintana-Guzmán, María del Pilar Salas-Cháves, Mayra Cartín-Brenes
Jazyk:	Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	indice masa corporal Medicine Pediatrics RJ1-570
Zdroj:	Acta Pediátrica de México, Vol 35, Iss 3, Pp 179-189 (2014)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	0186-2391 2395-8235
DOI:	10.18233/APM35No3pp179-189
Popis:	Body Mass Index (BMI) has been adopted as international measure for measuring adiposity in children with the disadvantage that it varies with age, sex and sexual maturation with no differentiation between fat mass and mass free of grease. The analysis of body composition allow to know if the overweight is due to fatty tissue being the deuterium isotope dilution method a validated reference method using Infrared Spectrometry Transformed of Fourier (FTIR).
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