Background and aims: There is increasing interest in early life body composition as a predictor of later obesity and metabolic dysfunction. Air displacement plethysmography offers direct measurement ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A long-term study has found that skinfold thickness during adolescence is a better predictor of being overweight as an adult than adolescent body mass index (BMI) -- the ...

Background: The lean mass index (LMI) is a new empirical measure that tracks within-subject proportional changes in body mass adjusted for changes in skinfold thickness. Objective: To compare the ...

Mutational analysis of cfDNA to identify predictive biomarkers in previously untreated patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer receiving the GSK-3 inhibitor ...