The aging process is characterized by the chronic inflammatory status called
“inflammaging”, which shares major molecular and cellular features with the metabolism …

Introduction: Effective methods for assessing visceral fat are important to investigate the role
of visceral fat for the increased health risks in obesity. Techniques for direct measurement of …

Obesity is associated with a major prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and high risk of
cardiovascular events and contributes to the increase in cardiovascular morbidity and …

The in vivo evaluation of body composition is essential in many clinical investigations, in
order to accurately describe and monitor the nutritional status of a range of medical …

The increasing ageing of our societies is accompanied by a pandemic of obesity and related
cardiometabolic disorders. Progressive dysfunction of the white adipose tissue is …

Body composition (BC) assessment is indispensable to evaluate nutritional status and thus
health, both at the population and individual level, and to assess the efficacy of primary and …

Advances in the technological qualities of imaging modalities for assessing human body
composition have been stimulated by accumulating evidence that individual components of …

Nutritional status is the results of nutrients intake, absorption and utilization, able to influence
physiological and pathological conditions. Nutritional status can be measured for individuals …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: The aim of this work was to provide a complete profile of body
composition (BC) in healthy subjects and to investigate age and gender-related differences …

Background Age-related changes in body composition include decreased muscle mass and
preserved or increased fat mass. There is no anthropometric index to assess both muscle …