Birth weight, physical growth and body composition in children: A longitudinal study

ABSTRACT Objective To describe children’s physical growth (body mass and height) velocity and body composition (fat percentage and Fat Free Mass); to investigate the magnitude of interindividual differences according to age, gender and birth weight categories, as well as to examine the differences i...

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Main Author: SANTOS,Marcos André Moura dos (author)
Other Authors: VERÇOSA,Marcela de França (author), GOMES,Thayse Natacha Queiroz Ferreira (author), MAIA,José António Ribeiro (author), LEANDRO,Carol Gois (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
Fat body
Fat Free Mass
Fat percentage
Growth Curve
Multilevel analyses
Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-52732018000300287
Country:Brazil
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