A video from Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Brianna Moore, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Texas School of Public Health, used COSMED PEA POD to investigate the longitudinal association of neonatal adiposity (fat mass percentage) with BMI trajectories and childhood overweight and obesity from ages 2 to 6 years. [ Video credits:...
Michael K. Georgieff, professor in Paediatrics at the Institute of Child Development - University of Minnesota (USA), takes a test with COSMED PEAPOD on a 30 weeks infant to determine body composition (fat and fat-free mass). [ Video credits: NETFLIX ] Discover more about COSMED PEA POD
The PEA POD is an important tool that enables a better understanding of fetal programming, the assessment of efficacy of nutritional therapies, and the development of normative body composition data among other applications. The PEA POD is the world’s only Air Displacement Plethysmography system using whole body densitometry to determine body composition (Fat and Fat-Free Mass) in infants weighing...
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