"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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| 1995 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
| 1996 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 1998 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 1999 | 4 | 8 | 12 |
| 2000 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 2001 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2002 | 6 | 7 | 13 |
| 2003 | 7 | 12 | 19 |
| 2004 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2005 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| 2006 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2007 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2008 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
| 2009 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2010 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
| 2011 | 3 | 10 | 13 |
| 2012 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2013 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 2014 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11 | 17 |
| 2016 | 5 | 6 | 11 |
| 2017 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2018 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2019 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9 | 19 |
| 2021 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 2022 | 3 | 11 | 14 |
| 2023 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 | 9 | 17 |
| 2025 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Body Composition" by people in Profiles.
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Maternal nitrate supplementation improves offspring cardiometabolic outcomes in obese pregnancies. Ann Med. 2025 Dec; 57(1):2521440.
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Metabolic clearance rate of insulin across the glucose tolerance spectrum by race and ethnicity in youth with obesity. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2025 Jul; 33(7):1365-1374.
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Fetal Body Composition in Twins and Singletons. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Jun 01; 179(6):630-638.
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Effect of aerobic or resistance exercise, or both on insulin secretion, ciliary neurotrophic factor, and insulin-like growth factor-1 in dieting older adults with obesity. Clin Nutr. 2025 Aug; 51:50-62.
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Resting Energy Expenditure Profiles in Pediatric Patients with Obesity Undergoing Sleeve Gastrectomy. Child Obes. 2025 Sep; 21(6):549-554.
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The harms of high protein intake: conjectured, postulated, claimed, and presumed, but shown? Am J Clin Nutr. 2025 Jul; 122(1):9-16.
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Fetal Body Composition and Organ Volume Trajectories in Association With Maternal Perceived Stress or Depressive Symptoms in the Fetal 3D Study. J Ultrasound Med. 2025 Jul; 44(7):1245-1259.
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Changes in Body Water Composition and Severity of Respiratory Disease in Very Preterm Infants. Respiration. 2025; 104(6):434-444.
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Relationship between gestational weight gain with fetal body composition and organ volumes in the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Fetal Dimensional Study: a prospective pregnancy cohort. Am J Clin Nutr. 2025 Feb; 121(2):367-375.
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Association of Computed Tomography Scan-Assessed Body Composition with Immune and PI3K/AKT Pathway Proteins in Distinct Breast Cancer Tumor Components. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Dec 14; 25(24).