Lean Tissue Imaging

Lean Tissue Imaging

Professional Development Committee, selected this article to be offered for CE credit to fill an observed learning need in the arena of clinical nutrition and metabolism. This CE activity serves to promote the process of lifelong learning for physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, and nurses by providing peer-reviewed journal articles that fully qualify for continuing education credits. Goal and ...

Lean tissue imaging: a new era for nutritional assessment and intervention.

Body composition refers to the amount of fat and lean tissues in our body; it is a science that looks beyond a unit of body weight, accounting for the proportion of different tissues and its relationship to health. Although body weight and body mass index are well-known indexes of health status, most researchers agree that they are rather inaccurate measures, especially for elderly individuals ...

Lean tissue adjusted peak oxygen consumption in congestive heart failure.

We disagree with the comments made by Dr. F. James Brennan that major events were underreported in our recent Journal article (1). Although we used a composite end point that included death, myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident and myocardial revascularization, we also separately reported mortality, myocardial infarction, repeat revascularization procedures and stroke (1). For exampl...

Nutritional constraints to lean tissue accretion in farm animals.

INTRODUCTION During the last decade the emphasis in animal production has switched from promoting maximum or near maximum growth to altering the efficiency and composition of growth, and the enhancement of lean tissue growth or protein accretion. These changes have been brought about by increasing consumer demand for leaner meat products, and the realization that at the same level of feed or en...

Increasing Efficiency of Lean Tissue Deposition in Broiler Chickens