Body composition - more to fat than first meets the eye

Affiliations

¹ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. clavie@ochsner.org.
² PROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity (PROFITH) research group, Department of Physical Education and Sports Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

Comment

Carl J Lavie et al. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2018 Oct.

. 2018 Oct;14(10):569-570.

doi: 10.1038/s41574-018-0088-z.

¹ John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, Ochsner Clinical School, The University of Queensland School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. clavie@ochsner.org.
² PROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity (PROFITH) research group, Department of Physical Education and Sports Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.

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