AUG 17, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Body Composition–Driven Phenotyping Reveals Obesity and Cardiometabolic Heterogeneity in Children Using a Tree-Like Representation
Diabetes
A well-designed, large single-cohort discovery study with independent validation that identifies clinically relevant body composition phenotypes and their cardiometabolic risk associations, but uses surrogate endpoints and spatial clustering metrics rather than hard clinical outcomes.
Reported
Discovery cohort sample size11238
Validation cohort sample size2001
Moran I (fat-dominant phenotype)0.3