Body Composition Percentiles in Urban South Indian Children and Adolescents.

Rebecca KuriyanSumithra SelvanTinku ThomasJayakumar JayakumarDeepa P LokeshMamatha P PhillipJini V AravindAnura V Kurpad

Published in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2019)

This study developed smoothed percentile curves for body composition in Indian children and suggests FMI and FFMI as good indicators of growth in children.

Keyphrases

body composition
resistance training
bone mineral density
young adults
postmenopausal women