body composition of healthy spanish children身体健康的西班牙儿童组成.pdfVIP

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 Moreover, the measurement of muscle in the human compartments, and the age and gender related body has been used mainly for the purpose of assessing changes in Spanish children. Subjects and Me- the nutritional status of the individual [2-4], as the mus- thods: A total of 231 healthy children from Ma- cle mass constitutes the body’s principal reservoir of drid (Spain) were recruited and divided into 3 proteins. groups according to age (birth-5, 6-10, 11-15y). Many different techniques have been used since the Body compartments (fat mass, lean mass and initiation of the first anthropometric studies. Analysis of bone mass)