Madeline Czeck, PhD and recent graduate of the doctoral program in the School of Kinesiology is the lead author of an article titled, “Muscle-to-bone and soft tissue-to-bone ratio in children and adolescents with obesity,” that was recently published in Journal of Clinical Densitometry. The purpose of this study was to explore the total and regional muscle-to-bone ratio in children and adolescents with obesity and compare the muscle-to-bone ratio (MBR) and soft tissue-to-bone ratio (SBR) to their normal weight and overweight peers. It was found that SBR may be useful as a marker for increased cardiometabolic disease risk in adolescents, though more research in this area is warranted. Don Dengel, PhD, a professor of kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), and William Juckett, MS, a current doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, were co-authors on this article.