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SUBMITTER: Breij LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186414 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pediatric obesity 20160413 4
<h4>Introduction</h4>Body composition in early life influences the development of obesity during childhood and beyond. It is, therefore, important to adequately determine longitudinal body composition during the first months of life.<h4>Patients and methods</h4>In 203 healthy term infants, we investigated longitudinal body composition, including fat mass percentage (FM%) and fat-free mass (FFM), by air-displacement plethysmography, at 1, 3 and 6 months of age and abdominal visceral fat and abdom ...[more]