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Vol.3, No.4, 211-217 (2011) Health doi:10.4236/health.2011.34038 Body composition of healthy Spanish children Soledad Aguado-Henche*, Rosa Rodríguez-Torres, Asunción Bosch-Martín, Luis Gómez-Pellico Human Anatomy and Embriology Department, School of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain; *Corresponding Author: soledad.aguado@uah.es Received 27 January 2011; revised 5 March 2011; accepted 23 March 2011. ABSTRACT associated with certain patterns of adipose tissue and fat distribution [1]. This paper shows the distribution of the body compartments, and the age and gender related changes in Spanish children. Subjects and Me- thods: A total of 231 healthy children from Ma- drid (Spain) were recruited and divided into 3 groups according to age (birth-5, 6-10, 11-15y). Body compartments (fat mass, lean mass and bone mass) measures were obtained from dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scans. Total and regional body compositions were evaluated. Results: There were gender differences for TBFM (total body fat mass) in 11 - 15 year age group and for TLBM (total lean body mass) in all age groups except for the 6 - 10 year age group. TBMC (total bone mineral content) shows sig- nificant gender differences form birth. Conclu- sions: Contrary to boys, girls showed from early infancy a smaller proportion of muscle mass and a higher proportion of body fat (from the age of 10), with fat deposits being mostly pe- ripheral. Bone mass and muscle mass values were higher in boys. Moreover, the measurement of muscle in the human body has been used mainly for the purpose of assessing the nutritional status of the individual [2-4], as the mus- cle mass constitutes the body’s principal reservoir of proteins. Many different techniques have been used since the initiation of the first anthropometric studies. Analysis of body composition is based on different types