Body composition and nutritional status changes in adolescents with anorexia nervosa

• Main Authors: Mercedes Murray Hurtado (Author), Álvaro Martín Rivada (Author), Carlos Quintero Alemán (Author), María Pilar Ruiz Alcántara (Author), Yolanda Ramallo Fariña (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Nutritional status assessment in anorexia nervosa (AN) includes the evaluation and monitoring of body composition throughout the treatment period. The gold standard for the study of body composition is dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), although electrical bioimpedance (BIA) is a...