Body composition measurement methods and their clinical application / 中华临床营养杂志
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition
;
(6): 125-130, 2015.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-470488
ABSTRACT
Body composition measurement could significantly facilitate evaluating the content of various body components,getting information about the health status and assessing the diagnosis,treatment,test,and prognosis of several diseases.Human health will be seriously affected by the imbalance of body composition.Body composition measurement methods are generally divided into local measurement methods and general measurement methods.The former ones include skinfold thickness measurement,ultrasonic measurement,computed tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance measurement;while the latter ones include anthropometry,underwater weighing measurement,air displacement measurement,biological resistance measurement,near infrared absorption measurement,dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry measurement,isotope dilution measurement,potassium isotope measurement and three-dimensional body scanning measurement,etc.This article reviews a variety of body composition measurement methods and their clinical application.
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Chinese
Journal:
Chinese Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Year:
2015
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