Body composition analysis in adolescents idiopathic scoliosis and its correlation with the severity of scoliosis.

Interestingly, our study found that as skeletal maturity and body weight increased, the muscle percentage in the whole-body, trunk, and limbs of AIS patients showed a decreasing trend, stabilizing at Risser sign grade 4–5.

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We also found that with increasing skeletal maturity, the whole-body and local subcutaneous fat percentage in AIS patients shows an increasing trend, which is largely consistent with reports of increased fat mass in girls during late puberty 31 .

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