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Body Composition Comes of Age: A Modest Proposal for the Next Generation: The New Reference Man
Author(s) -
PIERSON R. N.,
WANG J.,
THORNTON J. C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06414.x
Subject(s) - composition (language) , annals , center (category theory) , gerontology , history , medicine , art , classics , chemistry , literature , crystallography
In previous keynote addresses in this series of conferences in 19931 and 1996,2 we have addressed the precisions of measurement allowed us by our tools, and the proposition that they were good enough to measure the quality of the body cell mass. It is a theme that will not go away; we have come some distance along this path in our many years in the field, and we return to it today, with a look at what has been accomplished during the 13 years since this sequence of meetings started at Brookhaven in 1986. We shall close with a proposal that could bring all of us closer to influencing the care of patients.