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Define Changing Body Composition and Techniques for Measuring Body Composition?

Changing body composition has been suggested as a pathway to explain age-related functional decline about which we studied earlier. There are various techniques by which we could measure the body composition. In this section, we shall focus on the changing body composition during ageing and what measures are available to measure the body composition.


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