A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Body Composition Among Healthy Elderly From the European NU-AGE Study: Sex and Country Specific Features

• Published in: Frontiers in physiology Vol. 9; p. 1693
• Main Authors: Santoro, Aurelia, Bazzocchi, Alberto, Guidarelli, Giulia, Ostan, Rita, Giampieri, Enrico, Mercatelli, Daniele, Scurti, Maria, Berendsen, Agnes, Surala, Olga, Jennings, Amy, Meunier, Nathalie, Caumon, Elodie, Gillings, Rachel, Kadi, Fawzi, Capel, Frederic, Cashman, Kevin D., Pietruszka, Barbara, Feskens, Edith J. M., De Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M., Battista, Giuseppe, Salvioli, Stefano, Franceschi, Claudio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Frontiers 2018; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: body composition; Chair Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse; DXA; elderly; Europe; fat; Global Nutrition; HNE Nutrition and Health over the Lifecourse; HNE Voeding en Gezondheid in de Levenscyclus; Human health and pathology; lean and bone mass; Life Sciences; Physiology; sex; Tissues and Organs; VLAG; Wereldvoeding; body composition; Europe; elderly; sex; fat; lean and bone mass; DXA

Body composition (BC) is an emerging important factor for the characterization of metabolic status. The assessment of BC has been studied in various populations and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, endocrine diseases as well as physiological and paraphysiological conditions such as growth and agi...