Anthropometric and Body Composition Assessments in Health, Nutrition, and Sport
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2026 | Viewed by 32
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Interests: anthropometry; body composition assessments; body image; nutrition; public health; sports science
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Dear Colleagues,
Understanding the body composition of individuals is important for accurate diagnosis of their health and nutritional status. In addition, having an adequate level of skeletal muscle mass and percentage body fat (%BF) is essential to optimize performance in athletes. However, the accuracy and reliability of existing body composition techniques, as well as their associations with markers for health, nutrition and physical performance, vary; therefore, further investigations are warranted.
In addition, as not all body composition assessment techniques are always available, anthropometry has been frequently used to screen and diagnose health and nutritional status, as well as the performance level of athletes. However, their relationships with body composition, biomarkers and fitness levels vary by demographic variables, such as age, gender, and ethnicity, and therefore, many knowledge gaps remain. In addition, there are many anthropometric indices that have relatively recently been proposed and their usefulness for the abovementioned purposes are under-studied.
This Special Issue welcomes original studies and reviews that focus on the application of anthropometric and body composition assessments in health and nutritional assessments, as well as for the assessment of performance in athletes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Accuracy and reliability of body composition assessment techniques;
- Associations between body composition and health conditions/nutritional status/sport performance;
- Application of anthropometric indices in assessments of health status, nutritional status and sports performance;
- Revisiting existing cut-off values of anthropometric indices for health and nutritional status;
- Application of somatotype in the assessment of health and nutritional status as well as sports performance.
Dr. Masaharu Kagawa
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- body composition assessment techniques
- anthropometry
- densitometry
- hydrometry
- dual energy X-ray absorptiometry
- computed tomography
- ultrasound
- infrared
- magnetic resonance imaging
- bioelectrical impedance analysis
- 4 compartment model
- 3D scanning
- anthropometric indices
- skinfolds
- somatotype
- phantom stratagem
- malnutrition
- stunting
- wasting
- overweight
- obesity
- frailty
- sarcopenia
- sarcopenic obesity
- osteoporosis
- metabolic biomarkers
- masked obesity
- eating disorders
- metabolic syndrome
- athletes
- sports performance
- chronic diseases
- body image
- psychological disorders
- nutritional assessment
- health assessment
- pregnancy
- infants
- children
- adolescents
- elderly
- ethnicity
- gender
- growth and development
- sports
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