ReviewQuantitative imaging in medicine and surgery2020
Imaging of body composition in children.
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- Efficacy of long-term oral nutritional supplementation with dietary counseling on growth, body composition and bone mineralization in children with or at risk for undernutrition: a randomized controlled trial.Nutrition journal · 2025Trial
- Establish Global Nutrition Research Strategies: The Meeting Report of the First SIOP Nutrition Research Forum.Nutrients · 2026Article
- CT-Based body composition and nutritional status as predictors of early-treatment chemotherapy-related infections and hematologic toxicity in pediatric cancer: a prospective study.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Observational
- Nutritional Assessment of Children and Adolescents with Cancer in Various Resource Settings.Cancers · 2026Review
- Oxidative stress in adolescents with overweight/obesity.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2026Article
- A Narrative Review of Weight Management Strategies: From Lifestyle Interventions to Emerging Pharmacotherapies.Journal of obesity · 2026Review
- MRI abdominal fat segmentation with a novel VAT/SAT delineation algorithm: Otsu regression calibration and comparison to k-means and fuzzy c-means.Frontiers in bioinformatics · 2026Article
- PBMC proteome is altered in children with high body fat percentage.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Childhood obesity: The threatening apprentice of the adiposity empire.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Food switching at a meal is positively associated with change in adiposity among children at high-familial risk for obesity.Appetite · 2025Article
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- Prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons exposure and child growth and adiposity: A longitudinal study.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Body composition changes in pediatric patients with lymphoma after chemotherapy: a retrospective study.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Observational
- Visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue in children born after ART with frozen and fresh embryo transfers.Human reproduction open · 2025Article
- Automatic assessment of body composition in children with lymphoma: results of a [European radiology · 2025Article
- Switching between foods is reliably associated with intake across eating events in children.Appetite · 2024Article
- Visceral fat and cardiometabolic future in children and adolescents: a critical update.Pediatric research · 2023Review
- Nutritional management of children with acute kidney injury-clinical practice recommendations from the Pediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2023Review
- Infant body composition: A comprehensive overview of assessment techniques, nutrition factors, and health outcomes.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2023Review
- Automated body composition estimation from device-agnostic 3D optical scans in pediatric populations.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents have become a worldwide public health concern with an ever-increasing prevalence. An excessive accumulation of intraabdominal fat tissue increases the risk of developing insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases in adulthood. Body composition has a role in metabolism regulation in children and adolescents with differences between genders and age groups. Until recently, Air Displacement Plethysmography and Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) have been the most common techniques used to assess body composition in children. Ultrasound (US) is an accurate, readily available, and radiation-free technique to quantify intra-abdominal fat in adults, but its use in children has not yet been validated. Computed tomography (CT) is a reliable tool to assess body composition, but its use in children should be avoided due to the significant radiation burden. Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging (qMRI) provides an accurate measurement of body composition, through the quantification of the visceral adipose tissue (VAT), subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), and brown adipose tissue (BAT), as well as lean mass. Furthermore, qMRI provides other significant estimates such as the Proton Density Fat-Fraction of the fat tissue. This review article aims to briefly describe the state of art of the advanced imaging techniques to provide a quantitative assessment of body composition in children and adolescents.
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