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Functional body composition and related aspects in research on obesity and cachexia: report on the 12th Stock Conference held on 6 and 7 September 2013 in Hamburg, Germany

Müller, M. J. ; Baracos, V. ; Bosy-Westphal, A. ; Dulloo, Abdul G. ; Eckel, J. ; Fearon, K. C. H. ; Hall, K. D. ; Pietrobelli, A. ; Sørensen, T. I. A. ; Speakman, J. ; Trayhurn, P. ; Visser, M. ; Heymsfield, S. B.

In: Obesity Reviews, 2014, vol. 15, no. 8, p. 640–656

The 12th Stock Conference addressed body composition and related functions in two extreme situations, obesity and cancer cachexia. The concept of ‘functional body composition’ integrates body components into regulatory systems relating the mass of organs and tissues to corresponding in vivo functions and metabolic processes. This concept adds to an understanding of organ/tissue mass and...