Uses and Applications of Body Composition in Different Population Groups’ Health, Disease and Physical Exercise

Dear Colleagues,

Body composition analysis could be conducted using different techniques and based on different tissues or body compartments (fat, muscle, bone, residual or lean mass). Currently, there is a growing interest in generating new applications and software or establishing comparison between the methods (DXA, bioimpedance, anthropometry, infrared, air displacement) used more with the aim of finding optimal values of body composition in different populations (health, disease, physical activity or sport). On the one hand, across body composition analysis can diagnose and classify obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, sarcopenia, amenorrhea, osteopenia and eating disorders. On the other hand, the body composition and kinanthropometric characteristics could contribute to sport performance and sports talent detection. Additionally, the use of applications, software or new technologies to monitor changes in body composition will be useful when nutritional or physical exercise interventions are carried out for better health or sports performance.

This Special Issue seeks to provide educational innovation and technologies in body composition for stabilising the balance between different methods of determination, as well as establish reference values related to health in different types of population as the effect of different lifestyle interventions, dietetic-nutritional and/or physical activity intervention in body composition. Additionally, this Special Issue seeks to establish possible methods of assessment and monitoring of body composition associated with sports performance and/or detection of sports talent. As the Chief Editors of this Special Issue we would like to call for original research articles, cohort studies, case studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses focused on this topic. José Miguel Martínez-Sanz, Antonio Jesús Sánchez-Oliver, Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal and Raúl Domínguez.

Dr. José Miguel Martínez-Sanz
Prof. Dr. Antonio Jesús Sanchez-Oliver
Dr. Raquel Vaquero-Cristobal
Prof. Dr. Raúl Domínguez
Guest Editors

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