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Sexual dimorphism of body composition.

J. Wells

2007.9.1BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.04.007

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Sexual dimorphism in human body composition is evident from fetal life, but emerges primarily during puberty, where males have greater total lean mass and mineral mass and a lower fat mass than females, and these whole-body differences are complemented by major differences in tissue distribution.

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WELLS, J. Sexual dimorphism of body composition. BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM, 2007, 21 3: 415–30.