Accepted manuscript This is an Accepted Manuscript for Public Health Nutrition. This peer-reviewed article has been accepted for publication but not yet copyedited or typeset, and so may be subject to change during the production process. The article is considered published and may be cited using its DOI 10.1017/S136898002200235X Public Health Nutrition is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Nutrition Society. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. Childhood body mass index and other measures of body composition as a predictor of cardiometabolic non-communicable diseases in adulthood: A systematic review Amela Bander 1 *, Alexia J Murphy-Alford 2 , Victor O Owino 2 , Cornelia U Loechl 2 , Jonathan CK Wells 3 , Imara Gluning 4 and Marko Kerac 1,5 1 Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, WC1E 7HT, UK; amela.bander1@alumni.lshtm.ac.uk (A.B); marko.kerac@lshtm.ac.uk (M.K) 2 Nutritional and Health Related Environmental Studies Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria; a.alford@iaea.org (A.J.M); v.owino@iaea.org (V.O.O); c.u.loechl@iaea.org (C.U.L) 3 Population, Policy and Practice Research Teaching Department, University College London, London EX1N 1EH, UK; jonathan.wells@ucl.ac.uk (J.C.K.W) 4 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust, Brighton BN2 1ES, UK; i.gluning@nhs.net (I.G) 5 Centre for Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health (MARCH), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK marko.kerac@lshtm.ac.uk https://doi.org/10.1017/S136898002200235X Published online by Cambridge University Press