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Association between fat free mass/lean body mass and metabolic syndrome in
children: systematic review
Diana Cordoba, tris Iglesia Altaba, Alejandro Gémoz Brutén, Jose Antonio Casajis Mallén, Luis Moreno Aznar
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Diana Cordoba, Iris Iglesia Altaba, Alejandro Gémez Brutén, Jose Antonio Casajis Mallén, Luis Moreno
Aznar. Association between fat free massilean body mass and metabolic syndrome in children: systematic
review. PROSPERO 2019 CRD42019124734 Available from:
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Review question
Is there an association between fat free mass/lean body mass and metabolic syndrome in children?
Searches
The keywords that we will use to search for articles will be searched MeSH (Medical Subject Headings,
PubMed), The respective keywords and index terms are: Body composition, lean body mass, fat free mass,
lean mass, lean tissue mass, skeletal muscle mass, muscle mass, fat-free mass index (FFMI), metabolic,
syndrome, insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity.
The indexed terms of the same keyword will be combined using the Boolean operator "OR" and the group
of indexed terms of each of the keywords will be combined with the Boolean operator "AND", The asterisk
(") and quotes () truncation elements will also be used.
(((’Metabolic Syndrome"[MeSH] OR "Insulin Resistance"[MeSH] OR “Insulin sensitive") AND ("Body
Composition"[MeSH] OR “lean body mass” OR “fat free mass’OR “lean mass” OR ‘lean tissue mass” OR
“skeletal muscle mass” OR “muscle mass” OR “fat free mass index” ) AND (infant{MeSH] OR child[MeSH]
OR adolescent[MeSH))))
The following databases will be searched: PubMed (NCBI, U.S. National Library of Medicine), ScienceDirect
(Sciverse, Elsevier), Embase (OvidSP, Wolters Kluwer), Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science, and SciELO-
Scientific Electronic Library Online, The search will be limited to human studies and articles published in
English or Spanish
Types of study to be included
Inclusion criteria: we will include studies in children that evaluate at least once fat-free mass, lean muscle
mass, skeletal muscle mass, muscle mass, free fal mass index (FMI). Finally, written studies in English or
Spanish will be included. Boys and/or girls from birth - 18 years.
Exclusion criteria: studies in animals and studies in adults. Works without summary and full text in English
and Spanish.
Condition or domain being studied
Fat-‘ree mass (FFM) represents approximately 80% of the body weight and includes: bones, muscles,
extracellular water, nervous tissue and other cells that are not adipocytes or fat cells. To determine its
content is of great importance for health, since itis involved in several metabolic processes, for example:
energy expenditure, glucose metabolism and secretion of myokines, which improve insulin sensitivity and
stimulate lipolysis (Brown, 2014). The muscle mass is the quantitatively most important component of fat-
free mass, it is currently known that alterations in the amount and function can affect health and have
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important implications in the risk of developing insulin resistance in children and adolescents, ultimately
impacting the quality of life until adulthood (Steene-Johannessen, 2009, Benson, 2006).
This review evaluates the potential association between fat-free mass / lean body mass and metabolic
syndrome.
Participants/popul:
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Participants included boys andlor girls from birth - 18 years.
Intervention(s), exposure(s)
Not applicable: association between fat free mass/ lean body mass and metabolic syndrome in children.
Comparator(s)/control
Body composition measurements will be obtained by all methods described in the literature
(hydrodensitometry, plethysmography by air displacement, isotopic dilution, electrical bioimpedance, double
X-ray absorptiometry, anthropometry and computed tomography).
Main outcome(s)
Lean body mass,
Fat free mass.
Lean mass.
Lean tissue mass
Skeletal muscle mass.
Muscle mass.
Fat- free mass index (FFMI)
HDL-C
imc
Blood pressure
Glucose
Waist circumference
Triglycerides
Insulin
Additional outcome(s)
Not applicable.
Data extraction (selection and coding) 1 cas
‘Two reviewers will Independently examine each database to obtain potential publications. The relevant
articles will be obtained in their entirety and will be evaluated by the reviewers according to the inclusion
and exclusion criteria. The discrepancies between the reviewers will be resolved by consensus. The
arbitration of a third reviewer will be used for the unresolved discrepancies.
For the extraction of data from each study, tables will be created in the Microsoft Excel program with the
following information: author, date of study, study design, location, inclusion and exclusion criteria, data of
the participants, methodology used to evaluate the Fat Free mass (FFM) /lean body mass (LBM) and
results.
Risk of bias (quality) assessment
Risk of bias will be evaluated according to the Cochrane collaboration. (Higgins JPT, Green S, Sterne JAC,
Egger M, Moher D, Chapter 10: Addressing reporting biases. In: Higgins JPT, Green S, eds. Cochrane
handbook for systematic reviews of interventions Version 510, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.)
Strategy for data synthesis (1 art
Researchers will create tables to summarize the included studies. For continuous data, differences in
means (DM) with a 95% confidence interval (95% Cl) will be used. The categorical data will be reported as
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relative risks (RR) with a 95% Cl. The effect models will be applied for continuous and categorical data,
calculating the effect size for each result. The sources of heterogeneity will be carried out through the
analysis of subgroups and the evaluation of quality when the information is available. The heterogeneity of
the studies is proven by the I statistic, this statistic describes the variance between the studies as a
proportion of the total variance (<25% low heterogeneity, 25% at 50% moderate heterogeneity, > 50% at
75% high heterogeneity and > 75% very high heterogeneity). The associated P value of the heterogeneity of,
the studies will be calculated, with a non-significant result indicating the absence of heterogeneity.
All analyses will be performed using the Open Meta [Analyst] software.
Analysis of subgroups or subsets
IFit is possible, we will use variables that may influence the association between Fat free mass/ lean body
mass and metabolic syndrome in children, such as age groups, body composition measurement technique
and sex
Contact det
for further information
Diana Cordoba
d.cordoba@javeriana.edu.co
Organisational affiliation of the review
University of Zaragoza
Review team members and their organisational affiliations
Ms Diana Cordoba, GENUD (Growth, exercise, nutrition and development) Research Group. University of
Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain. Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Pontifical
Xavierian University, Bogota, Colombia
Dr Iris Iglesia Altaba, GENUD (Growth, exercise, nutrition and development) Research Group. University of
Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain
Dr Alejandro Gémez Brutén. GENUD (Growth, exercise, nutrition and development) Research Group.
University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain
Professor Jose Antonio Casajtis Mallén, GENUD (Growth, exercise, nutrition and development) Research
Group. University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain
Professor Luis Moreno Aznar. GENUD (Growth, exercise, nutrition and development) Research Group.
University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain
Type and method of review
Meta-analysis, Systematic review
Anticipated or actual start date
01 December 2018
01 September 2019
Funding sources/sponsors
University of Zaragoza. Zaragoza, Spain. The Carolina foundation scholarships
Conflicts of interest
Language
English
Country
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Spain
Stage of review
Review Ongoing
Subject index terms status
‘Subject indexing assigned by CRD
Subject index terms
Body Composition; Child; Humans; Metabolic Syndrome
Date of registration in PROSPERO
05 April 2019
Date of first submission
08 February 2019
Stage of review at time of this submission
Stage Started Completed
Preliminary searches Yes No
Piloting of the study selection process No No
Formal screening of search results against eligibility criteria No No
Data extraction No No
Risk of bias (quality) assessment No No
Data analysis, No No
The record owner confirms that the information they have supplied for this submission is accurate and
complete and they understand that deliberate provision of inaccurate information or omission of data may
be construed as scientific misconduct.
The record owner confirms that they will update the status of the review when it is completed and will add
publication details in due course.
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