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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bailly, Mélina
• Germain, Natacha
• Galusca, Bogdan
• Courteix, Daniel
• Thivel, David
• Verney, Julien

Titel

Invited Letter to Editor in response to: Constitutional thinness: body fat metabolism and skeletal muscle are important factors

Ist Teil von

• British journal of nutrition, 2020-11, Vol.124 (9), p.999-1000

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite the heterogeneity of the criteria and thresholds used in the thirty-five reviewed studies, the following points were frequently identified: no eating disorder, no associated disease, no over-exercising, no amenorrhoea, weight gain resistance and stable body weight. In his recent and relevant letter to the Editor, Dr Maffetone(2) highlighted the quality and pertinence of our work, suggesting, however, to reinforce the consideration of both body fat metabolism (pointing moreover the limitation induced by the use of BMI only) and skeletal muscle strength that might be of importance when it comes to individuals with CT. According to our results, individuals with CT, in agreement with their lower muscle mass(4,7–9), showed smaller fibre cross-sectional areas of all muscle fibre types compared with normal-weight participants(8,9).