Anthropometry and Body Composition for Health, Disease and Sport: Application and Technologies
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 85138
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Interests: sport nutrition, body composition; supplements; legislation; nutrition software and tools
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Interests: health habits; physical fitness; body composition; obesity; diet; sport performance; sport nutrition
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Interests: anthropometry; biomechanics; body composition; exercise adaptations; health; training
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2. Studies Research Group in Neuromuscular Responses (GEPREN), University of Lavras, 37200-000 Lavras, Brazil
Interests: sports nutrition; muscle function; cardiorespiratory responses; ergogenic aids; diet
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropometric and body composition analysis could be done via different techniques and based on different body compartments. Currently, there is a growing interest in generating new applications and software or establishing a comparison between the methods used more often with the aim of finding optimal values of body composition to establish reference values for both health and sport performance. In this sense, anthropometric assessment and body composition are related to health status. On the one hand, cross-body composition analysis could detect obesity and pathologies including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, sarcopenia, amenorrhea, osteopenia, and eating disorders. On the other hand, in sport, certain anthropometric variables could contribute to sport performance, and its detection across anthropometry could be useful. In addition, sport performance has been associated with a specific body composition, especially in sport modalities that require a high level of sport economy and sport modalities with categories based on body weight, such as combat sports or weightlifting modalities. 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 sport performance.
This Special Issue seeks to provide educational innovation and technologies in body composition to stabilize the accordance between different methods of determination and establish reference values related to health in different types of population, such as the effect of different intervention of lifestyle, dietetic–nutritional, and/or physical activity intervention in body composition. Additionally, this Special Issue seeks to establish possible anthropometric measurements that could be associated with sport performance and/or detection of sport talent, such as the effect of different intervention focused on provoke changes in body composition. As Chief Editors of this Special Issue titled “Anthropometry and Body Composition for Health, Disease, and Sport: Application and Technologies”, we would like to make a call for original research articles, cohort studies, cases 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
Dr. Antonio Jesús Sanchez-Oliver
Dr. Raquel Vaquero-Cristobal
Dr. Raul Domínguez Herrera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Anthropometry
- Body Composition
- Technologies
- Applications
- Software
- Biomechanics
- Sport Performance
- Disease
- Health
- Educational Innovation