Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 10 , Pages 1020-1028 , October 2009

Body composition assessment in a sample of eight-year-old children

  • Guglielmo Bonaccorsi, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Lorenzo Baggiani, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39-055-4598510; fax: +39-055-459-8935.
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  • Andrea Bassetti, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Scuola di Specializzazione in Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Cesare Colombo, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Chiara Lorini, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Silvia Mantero, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Nadia Olimpi, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Francesca Santomauro, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Nicola Comodo, F.P.

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

Received 22 July 2008 ,Accepted 12 January 2009.

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PII: S0899-9007(09)00121-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2009.01.016

Nutrition
Volume 25, Issue 10 , Pages 1020-1028 , October 2009

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