Editorial: Body composition assessment techniques in clinical and epidemiological settings: Development, validation and use in dietary programs, physical training and sports

Roberto Fernandes da Costa; Rossana Candiota Nogueira; Mauro Fisberg; Gerson Ferrari

doi:10.3389/fnut.2023.1146553

Editorial: Body composition assessment techniques in clinical and epidemiological settings: Development, validation and use in dietary programs, physical training and sports

Front Nutr. 2023 Jan 31:10:1146553. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1146553. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Roberto Fernandes da Costa¹, Rossana Candiota Nogueira², Mauro Fisberg³, Gerson Ferrari^{4

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Affiliations

¹ Physical Education Department, Health Sciences Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
² Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia.
³ Pensi Institute-José Luis E. Setubal Foundation and Pediatrics Department, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
⁴ Escuela de Ciencias de la Actividad Física, el Deporte y la Salud, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile.
⁵ Grupo de Estudio en Educación, Laboratorio de Rendimiento Humano, Actividad Física y Salud (GEEAFyS), Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile.

No abstract available

Keywords: air displacement plethsymography; anthropometry; bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA); body composition; comput(eriz)ed tomography; dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA); fat free mass (FFM); fat mass.

Publication types

Editorial