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Most body water is stored in muscle. When it comes to body composition testing and analysis most people instantly think of body fat percentages and muscle mass. The patients were classified in hypertensive or non hypertensive according to the mean blood pressure bpmean. These volumes are determined by measurement of whole body bioimpedance spectroscopy at 50 frequencies via electrodes placed on the wrist and ankle. Limbs and trunk contribute to zwb by 90 and 10 respectively. Bioelectrical impedance analysis bia is a commonly used method for estimating body composition in particular body fat and muscle massin bia a weak electric current flows through the body and the voltage is measured in order to calculate impedance resistance of the body.

The relation between hyperhydration in thorax segment through real part of impedance and mean blood. Using segmental bioimpedance measurements it is possible to obtain information about the fluid change in each body segment song lee kim and kim 1999 perit. A new device the body composition monitor bcm. Once re and ri have been calculated from a bioimpedance measurement the amount of extracellular and intracellular fluids can be calculated see 9 for further details. Tetrapolar whole body hand foot bioelectrical impedance zwb is utilized in body composition analysis for direct assessment of soft tissue hydration vector bia and indirect assessment of lean and fat soft tissue mass bia prediction equations. Mono frequency 50 khz and multi frequency 3 khz 1 mhz whole body and thoracic segment bioimpedance measurement were doing before and after hemodialysis session in 20 patients.

Materials and methods 31. Measurement of total body bioimpedance is the most commonly used method for estimating whole body compartments. Fresenius medical care bad homburg germany provides a convenient method to obtain ecw and total body water precisely table table1. Yet todays medical bia bioelectrical impedance analysis devices do so much more than just measure body fat and muscle mass. Whole body and segmental bis measurements four points whole body and segmental bis measurements see figure 3 were performed on. Many of the whole body bioimpedance instruments apply three approaches for impedance measurement.

This post was updated on october 18 2018 for accuracy and comprehensivenessit was originally published on july 5 2017. Whole body bioimpedance measurement. The whole body bioimpedance technique is a highly promising non invasive reproducible fast and inexpensive bed side method for monitoring hydration status. Hand to foot method 1417 foot to foot 4446 method and hand to hand method 4748. Segmental and whole body bioimpedance measurements in continuous peritoneal dialysis patients 71 622 bioimpedance measurement protocol the measures were made with the analyzer of biological impedance model sta bia akern rjl system italy figure 61. Measurement errors of the system are lower.

Materials and methods patient populations. Measurement whole body electrical bioimpedance wbeb in different cardiac clinical settings during cardiac catheterization and coronary artery bypass graft cabg surgery and for monitoring patients with acute chf and over a wide range of ci values and severity of left ventricular dysfunction.