It's obvious why only men develop prostate cancer and why only women get ovarian cancer.
But it is not obvious why women are more likely to recover language ability after a stroke …

Body composition exhibits marked variations across the early human lifetime. The precise
physiological mechanisms that drive such developmental adaptations are difficult to …

Background: Validation studies of height-and weight-based indexes of body fatness in
children and adolescents have examined only small samples of school-age children …

Critical to the design and assessment of interventions for enteropathy and its developmental
consequences in children living in impoverished conditions are non-invasive biomarkers …

Objective. The aim is to describe body composition in relation to body mass index (BMI;
body weight/stature2) to provide health care professionals insight into the meaning …

In recent years, we've developed a much better grasp of the biological and other factors
associated with the development of obesity. Reflecting our evolving understanding of …

Few large studies have evaluated the emergence of sexual dimorphism in fat distribution
with appropriate adjustment for total body composition. The objective of this study was to …

Body mass index is widely used as a measure of adiposity in adults, but its use in children
and adolescents is controversial. We assessed body mass index as a measure of adiposity …

Background: Although dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is considered the most
accurate measure of adiposity in children, it has rarely been used to examine the relation …

In this cross-sectional study gender differences in body composition (relative fat mass and
lean body mass adjusted by height) were analyzed among 869 girls and 780 boys aging …