Contemporary issues of the study the human body composition

Assessment of human body composition in vivo becomes increasingly important in medicine and sport. The study of body composition actually important for diagnose and prognosis of diseases. Several techniques successfully used in medicine - in resuscitation and intensive care, cardiology, surgery. The study of body composition plays a key role on diagnosis of obesity and osteoporosis, allows to plan and monitor of drug therapy. In sport, analysis of athlete’s body composition is the effective method to control physical performance, and it allows efficiently organizing sportsmen’s training process. There are known relationships of body composition with physical performance, with person adaptation to environmental conditions, professional and sports activities. There are variation of body mass components from sport specifics, age and skill differences of athletes. This article provides list of techniques of body composition assessment. Here described the scopes and capabilities, advantages and disadvantages of the methods. If there are different investigation methods of body composition, the choice of assessment technique depends from purpose of the research and availability of technology.

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