Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Body Weight

Body weight is the total mass of an individual and a fundamental clinical measurement used to assess nutritional status, growth, and disease risk. Interpreted alone or combined with height as body mass index, and increasingly refined by body-composition analysis that partitions mass into fat, fat-free, and skeletal-…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 25× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2691-5014 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Body weight is the total mass of an individual and a fundamental clinical measurement used to assess nutritional status, growth, and disease risk. Interpreted alone or combined with height as body mass index, and increasingly refined by body-composition analysis that partitions mass into fat, fat-free, and skeletal-muscle compartments, body weight informs the diagnosis of underweight, overweight, and obesity and the monitoring of intentional weight change. Its regulation reflects the balance between energy intake and expenditure, modulated by metabolic, hormonal, behavioral, and environmental factors, and abnormal weight is linked to elevated risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions, while undernutrition and disordered eating produce their own morbidity. Accurate measurement and the choice of model used to characterize body mass are therefore central to nutrition science and clinical management. The peer-reviewed research gathered here in the journal's pediatric health and nutrition corpus reflects these themes, including high-energy nutritional support in anorexia nervosa, hypocaloric Mediterranean dietary intervention in overweight patients, total body water and hydration assessment, new models of body composition and their association with severe obesity and skeletal muscle mass, high-protein supplementation effects on fat mass in obese adolescents, and the relationship between diet quality, weight management, and metabolic outcomes across the lifespan.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 25 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Pediatric Health And Nutrition (ISSN 2691-5014).

Journal editorial board
Narcis Flavius Tepeneu · Romania Ann Scheimann · United States Stefan Bittmann · Germany

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