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Nutrition assessment is important during chronic respiratory insufficiency to evaluate the level of malnutrition or obesity and should include body composition measurements. The appreciation of fat-free and fat reserves in patients with chronic respiratory insufficiency can aid in designing an adapted nutritional support, e.g., nutritional support in malnutrition and food restriction in obesity....
The mechanism(s) governing the gain of upper-body fat and its relationship to the decrease in bone mass with age is still unclear. Therefore, four groups of subjects matched for weight, height, and body mass index (n = 119; 60 women, 59 men), but differing in age (above and below 50 y) and sex were investigated using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) to assess body composition (bone, lean, and...
Objectives: The study was carried out to assess age-related changes of body composition and to evaluate the influence of lean and fat mass in bone mineral density of healthy and osteoporotic women. Methods: 166 healthy women in premenopause (43.2 ± 6.7 years), 591 healthy postmenopausal women (59.9 ± 8.1 years) and 373 women with established involutive osteoporosis (66.2 ± 7.8 years) were evaluated:...
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