"Body Composition" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The relative amounts of various components in the body, such as percentage of body fat.
| Descriptor ID |
D001823
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.130 G03.180 G07.100.049
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| Concept/Terms |
Body Composition- Body Composition
- Body Compositions
- Composition, Body
- Compositions, Body
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Body Composition".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Body Composition".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Body Composition" by people in this website by year, and whether "Body Composition" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2004 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2007 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Composition" by people in Profiles.
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A novel body composition risk score (B-Score) and overall survival among patients with nonmetastatic breast cancer. Clin Nutr. 2024 Apr; 43(4):981-987.
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Adipose tissue and skeletal muscle wasting precede clinical diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. Nat Commun. 2023 07 18; 14(1):4317.
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A comparison of associations of body mass index and dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry measured percentage fat and total fat with global serum metabolites in young women. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2023 02; 31(2):525-536.
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Body composition from single versus multi-slice abdominal computed tomography: Concordance and associations with colorectal cancer survival. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2022 12; 13(6):2974-2984.
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Weight stability masks changes in body composition in colorectal cancer: a retrospective cohort study. Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 06 01; 113(6):1482-1489.
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Association of Low Muscle Mass and Low Muscle Radiodensity With Morbidity and Mortality for Colon Cancer Surgery. JAMA Surg. 2020 10 01; 155(10):942-949.
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Body Composition, Adherence to Anthracycline and Taxane-Based Chemotherapy, and Survival After Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2020 02 01; 6(2):264-270.
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Postdiagnosis Loss of Skeletal Muscle, but Not Adipose Tissue, Is Associated with Shorter Survival of Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2019 12; 28(12):2062-2069.
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Muscle segmentation in axial computed tomography (CT) images at the lumbar (L3) and thoracic (T4) levels for body composition analysis. Comput Med Imaging Graph. 2019 07; 75:47-55.
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Computed tomography-derived assessments of regional muscle volume: Validating their use as predictors of whole body muscle volume in cancer patients. Br J Radiol. 2018 Dec; 91(1092):20180451.