Background: Early-life nutrition may influence later body composition. The effect of
breastfeeding and formula feeding on infant body composition is uncertain. Objective: We …

Obesity (Body mass index (BMI) above 30) is one of the major health issues of the 21st
century. Over 1.1 billion of the world's population are now classified as obese. In the UK …

Background We aimed to describe newborn body composition and identify which
anthropometric ratio (weight/length; BMI; or ponderal index, PI) best predicts fat mass (FM) …

Background: There is increasing interest in using smartphones as stand-alone physical
activity monitors via their built-in accelerometers, but there is presently limited data on the …

BACKGROUND: There is increasing evidence that in utero growth has both immediate and
far-reaching influence on health. Birth weight and length are used as surrogate measures of …

Infant body composition is affected by maternal obesity, which results in increased% body fat
in the infant. With the rapidly increasing incidence of obesity, it is important that normative …

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a major health problem, with increased risks of
obesity and diabetes in offspring. However, little is known about the effect of GDM on infant …

Air displacement plethysmography (ADP) has been widely utilised to track body composition
because it is considered to be practical, reliable, and valid. Pea Pod is the infant version of …

Background: Data on body composition in infancy may improve the understanding of the
relation between variability in fetal and infant growth and disease risk through the life …

The 2011 P ennington B iomedical R esearch C enter's S cientific S ymposium focused on
adiposity in children and adolescents. The symposium was attended by 15 speakers and …