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  • Title: Total body water measurement by a modification of the bioimpedance spectroscopy method.
    Author: Jaffrin MY, Fenech M, Moreno MV, Kieffer R.
    Journal: Med Biol Eng Comput; 2006 Oct; 44(10):873-82. PubMed ID: 16964519.
    Abstract:
    We propose a method for calculating directly total body water (TBW) volumes (V (t)) from whole body resistance extrapolated at infinite frequency (R (infinity)) using a XITRON 4200 impedance meter. Mean TBW resistivities for men and women were determined from measurements of R (infinity) and fat-free mass (FFM(d)) measured by DXA in 58 healthy subjects assuming an average hydration coefficient of 73.2%. Mean differences between V (t) measured by our new method and those deduced from DXA data were +0.11 +/- 1.61 L for women and +0.13 +/- 2.16 L for men. For validation, this method was tested with the same resistivities against a 2nd group of 16 volunteers and the mean difference between V (t) from impedance and DXA was -0.80 +/- 1.43 L. Since the resistance at 50 kHz (R (50)) was found to be equal, in average, to 1.230 R (infinity) for men and 1.223 R (infinity) for women, this method can also be applied at 50 kHz with a similar accuracy by estimating R (infinity) from R (50). When our new method was applied to the monitoring of water loss during 28 dialysis runs performed on 13 patients, it predicted a mean water loss equal to 94% of ultrafiltered volume.
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