The 8th International Symposium on In-Vivo Body Composition Studies

描述（由申请人提供）： 人体成分研究的现代时代涉及新方法的开发，隔室建模，以及其翻译来理解生长，衰老和疾病过程。无论是研究儿童或成人肥胖、体重增加或减轻、代谢功能或疾病，了解哪些身体成分具有临床相关性都很重要。拟议的2.5天的研讨会，其主题为“身体成分和整个生命周期的代谢功能”，将召集大多数参与身体成分研究的各自领域的领先科学家。是次研讨会的目的包括：传播有关身体成分研究领域的最新及潜在发展的最新资料，以及与临床有关的终点;传播最近的科学调查所得出的研究结果，这些研究结果证明测量身体成分对了解临床重要问题的重要性/效用;回顾了过去3年在身体成分研究方面取得的进展，特别强调了这些进展的转化方面（应用于临床研究-生长，衰老，肥胖和疾病）;鼓励年轻的研究人员参加进一步培训该领域新研究人员的目标;并在一份刊物上发表会议记录，强调所讨论的重要问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The modern era of human body composition research involves new methodology development, compartment modeling, and its translation to understanding growth, aging, and disease processes. Whether it is the study of childhood or adult obesity, weight gain or loss, metabolic function or disease, an understanding of which body components are of clinical relevance is important. The proposed 2.5 day symposium with its theme "Body Composition & Metabolic Function Across the Lifespan" will convene most of the leading scientists in their respective fields who are involved in body composition research. The objectives of this symposium include: the dissemination of up-to-date information on new and potential future developments in the field of body composition research with clinically relevant end-points; the dissemination of research findings arising from recent scientific investigations that demonstrate the importance/utility of measuring body composition for the understanding of clinically important questions; a review of the advances made in the last 3 years in body composition research, with particular emphasis on translational aspects of the advances (with application to clinical research-growth, aging, obesity, and diseases); encouragement of young investigators to attend to further the objective of training new investigators in the field; and publication of the conference proceedings in a journal stressing the important issues discussed.