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SUBMITTER: Loeffler-Wirth H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5650166 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Loeffler-Wirth Henry H Vogel Mandy M Kirsten Toralf T Glock Fabian F Poulain Tanja T Körner Antje A Loeffler Markus M Kiess Wieland W Binder Hans H
PloS one 20171020 10
Three-dimensional (3D-) body scanning of children and adolescents allows the detailed study of physiological development in terms of anthropometrical alterations which potentially provide early onset markers for obesity. Here, we present a systematic analysis of body scanning data of 2,700 urban children and adolescents in the age range between 5 and 18 years with the special aim to stratify the participants into distinct body shape types and to describe their change upon development. In a first ...[more]