Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ANO: Anorexia; BCM: Body Cell Mass; BIA: Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis; BMI: Body Mass Index; BW: Body Weight; BWC: Body Weight Loss And Composition; COX: Cyclo Oxygenase; DXA: Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry; FFM: Fat-Free Mass; FM: Fat Mass; GH: Growth Hormone; HAQ: Health Assessment Score; IGF: Insulin-Like Growth Factor; IL-1ß...

Both electrocardiography and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) aim to transform electrical properties of tissues into clinical information. Electrocardiography is based on several established patterns relating electrical measurements to heart disorders.1,2 Conventional BIA is based on electric models supporting quantitative estimates of body compartments.3–9 In BIA literature, an electrica...

The aims of this study were to cross-validate three clinical-grade measures of body composition, using an octopolar Bioelectrical Impedance (BIA), an ultrasound analyzer (US) and Air-Displacement Plethysmography (ADP) and second to compare the US scans of total abdominal, subcutaneous and visceral fat depths (mm) against the trunk percent fat (%BF) from the octopolar BIA. Twenty-six college-age...

Appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) is a diagnostic criterion for sarcopenia. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) offers a bedside approach to measure ASM but the performance of BIA prediction equations (PE) varies with ethnicities and body composition. We aim to validate the performance of five PEs in estimating ASM against estimation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). We recrui...

Body composition methods were examined in 20 women [body mass index (BMI) 48.7 +/- 8.8 kg/m(2)] before and after weight loss [-44.8 +/- 14.6 (SD) kg] after gastric bypass (GBP) surgery. The reference method, a three-compartment (3C) model using body density by air displacement plethysmography and total body water (TBW) by H(2)18O dilution (3C-H(2)18O), showed a decrease in percent body fat (%BF...

BACKGROUND In this article (the second of two companion studies), we report whether bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) can be used to predict muscle mass in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and whether using this predicted muscle mass can improve the estimation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). METHODS Seventy five non-diabetic patients with CKD (mean age +/- SD, 65.1 +/- 12...

Lean body mass (LBM) is an important prognostic factor in patients with cancer. Although the L3–computed tomography (CT) scan considered a reference method for assessment, convenient and easily available longitudinal follow-up required. bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) widely used, its accuracy questioned; plasma creatinine-to-cystatin C (CC) ratio could be attractive alternative. The aim...

objective: nowadays the value of bioelectrical impedance analysis (bia) in the estimation of body adiposity both on a clinical basis in the individual and epidemiologically in large populations is of great interest. the current study determine accuracy of bia compared with body mass index (bmi) measurement for estimating body composition in a group of normal weight employee women with a sedenta...

Estimates of total body water (TBW) play an important role in studies of body composition and energetics in mammals. We evaluated bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) as a means of rapidly and inexpensively estimating TBW in 38 grey seals (Halichoerus grypus). Twenty-two males and 16 females, representing the range of body sizes in the population, were studied at Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Se...

Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a common method for assessing body composition in research and clinical trials. BIA is convenient but when compared with other reference methods, the results have been inconclusive. The level of obesity degree in subjects is considered to be an important factor affecting the accuracy of the measurements. A total of 711 participants were recruited in Tai...