Research Catalog

Title

Human body composition / Steven B. Heymsfield [and others], editors.

Publication

Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, [2005], ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Heymsfield, Steven, 1944-

Subject

• Body composition
• Body composition > Measurement
• Anthropometry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-502) and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Study of body composition : an overview / Wei Shen, Marie-Pierre St.-Onge, ZiMian Wang and Steven B. Heymsfield -- Ch. 2. Hydrodensitometry and air displacement plethysmography / Scott B. Going -- Ch. 3. Hydrometry / Dale A. Schoeller -- Ch. 4. Whole-body counting and neutron activation analysis / Kenneth J. Ellis -- Ch. 5. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry / Timothy G. Lohman and Zhao Chen -- Ch. 6. Bioelectrical impedance analysis / Wm. Cameron Chumlea and Shumei S. Sun -- Ch. 7. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging / Robert Ross and Ian Janssen -- Ch. 8. Anthropometry and ultrasound / Anna Bellisari and Alex F. Roche -- Ch. 9. Pediatric body composition methods / Aviva Sopher, Wei Shen and Angelo Pietrobelli -- Ch. 10. Animal body composition methods / Maria S. Johnson and Tim R. Nagy -- Ch. 11. Statistical methods / Shumei S. Sun and Wm. Cameron Chumlea -- Ch. 12. Multicomponent molecular-level models of body composition analysis / ZiMian Wang, Wei Shen, Robert T. Withers and Steven B. Heymsfield -- Ch. 13. Measuring adiposity and fat distribution in relation to health / Luis B. Sardinha and Pedro J. Teixeira -- Ch. 14. Assessing muscle mass / Henry C. Lukaski -- Ch. 15. Body composition, organ mass, and resting energy expenditure / Dympna Gallagher and Marinos Elia -- Ch. 16. Genetic influences on human body composition / Peter Katzmarzyk and Claude Bouchard -- Ch. 17. Age / Richard N. Baumgartner -- Ch. 18. Variation in body composition associated with sex and ethnicity / Robert M. Malina -- Ch. 19. Pregnancy / Sally Ann Lederman -- Ch. 20. Exercise / Daniel P. Williams, Pedro J. Teixeira and Scott B. Going -- Ch. 21. Hormonal influences on human body composition / Marie-Pierre St.-Onge and Per Bjorntorp -- Ch. 22. Morbidity and mortality associations / Jacob C. Seidell -- Ch. 23. Body composition and cancer / Zhao Chen -- Ch. 24. Obesity and diabetes : body composition determinants of insulin resistance / Bret H. Goodpaster and David E. Kelley -- Ch. 25. Body composition studies in people with HIV / Donald P. Kotler and Ellen S. Engelson -- Ch. 26. Inflammatory diseases and body composition / Ian Janssen and Ronenn Roubenoff.

ISBN

0736046550 (hard cover)

LCCN

2004026523

OCLC

• ocm56956105
• SCSB-5240945

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries