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Bioelectrical Impedance Phase Angle: Utility in clinical practice
The choice of the best nutrition assessment method in hospitalized patients remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to review the use of phase angle (PA) in clinical practice.
Bioelectrical impedance analysis in clinical practice: a new perspective on its use beyond body composition equations
The bioelectrical impedance analysis is not a direct method for estimating body composition. Its accuracy depends on regression equations, and recent papers have suggested that this approach should not be used in several clinical situations. Another option is to obtain information about the electrical properties of tissues by using raw bioelectrical impedance measurements, resistance and reactance. They can be expressed as a ratio (phase angle) or as a plot (bioelectrical impedance vector analysis). This review
describes their use in clinical practice.
Cereals and pulse-based ready-to-use therapeutic food as an alternative to the standard milk- and peanut paste–based formulation for treating severe acute malnutrition: a noninferiority, individually randomized controlled efficacy clinical trial
The cost of current standard ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) is among the major obstacles to scaling up community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM), an important child survival strategy. Identifying a cheaper alternative is a global public health priority.
Biochemical and anthropometric correlates of bio-electrical impedance parameters in severely malnourished children: A cross-sectional study
Despite expanding use of bio-impedance (BI), little is known about its pathophysiologic significance and biological correlates.
Bioelectric impedance phase angle as a diagnostic and prognostic marker in carcinoma tongue: a hospital-based study
Malignancies of tongue represent one of the greatest management challenges for the head and neck oncologists because of the adverse effects of treatment on oral and pharyngeal functions. Diagnosis at later stages results
in poor treatment outcomes and considerable costs to patients. Bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA)-derived phase angle offers an emerging opportunity to assess prognosis in these malignancies.
Bioelectrical impedance phase angle in clinical practice: implications for prognosis in stage IIIB and IV non-small cell lung cancer
A frequent manifestation of advanced lung cancer is malnutrition, timely identification and treatment of which can lead to improved patient outcomes. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is an easy-to-use and non-invasive technique to evaluate changes in body composition and nutritional status. We investigated the prognostic role of BIA-derived phase angle in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
Body composition and phase angle in Russian children in remission from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Elevated degree of body fatness and changes in other body composition parameters are known to be common effects of treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children. In order to study peculiarities of somatic growth and development in ALL survivors, we describe the results of BIA body composition analysis of 112 boys and 108 girls aged 5-18 years in remission from ALL (remission time range 1-13 years) compared to data from the same number of age- and sex-matched healthy controls (n=220).
The relationship between bioelectrical impedance phase angle and subjective global assessment in advanced colorectal cancer
Bioelectrical Impedance (BIA) derived phase angle is increasingly being used as an objective indicator of nutritional status in advanced cancer. Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) is a subjective method of nutritional status. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between BIA derived phase angle and SGA in advanced colorectal cancer.
Cognitive Improvements in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's Disease though a Personalized Mito Food Plan Diet and Cell Repair Therapy
Currently, over 50 million people worldwide are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and more than 16 million Americans suffer from Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Despite unremitting scientific and clinical efforts, there has yet to be therapy that has abated disease progression.
Body composition and echocardiographic abnormalities associated to anemia and volume overload in heart failure patients
Heart failure (HF) patients with hemodilutional anemia had a worse prognosis than those with true anemia. Volume overload (VO) in anemic patients must be identified in order to select the best treatment.