Body composition among Malawian young adolescents: Cross-validating predictive equations for bioelectric impedance analysis using deuterium dilution method

• Pieta Näsänen-Gilmore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Oulu, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6886-4126

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• Chiza Kumwenda ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiza Kumwenda, Markku Nurhonen

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Markku Nurhonen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chiza Kumwenda, Markku Nurhonen

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Oulu, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5001-3585

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• Lotta Hallamaa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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• Charles Mangani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Per Ashorn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland

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• Ulla Ashorn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Child, Adolescent, and Maternal Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland

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• Eero Kajantie

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eero.kajantie@thl.fi

  Affiliations Population Health Unit, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki and Oulu, Finland, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Clinical Medicine Research Unit, MRC Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, Children’s Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-8391

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