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Body Composition Assessment

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Abstract

The recent and dramatic increases in worldwide obesity rates have resulted in a tremendous number of people at risk for the development of cardiometabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery disease, and stroke. Against this background, there is a pressing need to improve our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the contribution of obesity to the development of cardiometabolic disease. The expectation is that this knowledge will lead to better screening practices for the identification of those individuals at greatest cardiometabolic risk and the development of targeted prevention strategies and novel therapeutic agents. The use of body composition analysis is an essential tool to researchers and clinicians working in this field. The objectives of this chapter are to review the basic principles underlying body composition analysis, discuss existing models for applying body composition analysis to the study of cardiometabolic disease, and highlight new functional body composition models that seek to integrate established approaches with emerging techniques such as advanced medical imaging to provide a more complete understanding of the complex relationships between body compartments and disease states.

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    Babette S. Zemel

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Weber, D.R., Zemel, B.S. (2016). Body Composition Assessment. In: Ahima, R.S. (eds) Metabolic Syndrome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11251-0_33

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