A Review of Body Composition Measurement in the Assessment of Health

Toomey, Clodagh; Cremona, Alexandra; Hughes, Katie; Norton, Catherine; Jakeman, Philip M.

doi:10.1097/tin.0000000000000017

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“…obesity and sarcopenia. Constructed appropriately, body composition analysis could inform those at risk of aberrant body composition-related disease [31]. Recognising the limitation of an analysis of a convenience sample of the population, these data support the recommendation to generate an age and sex-specific body composition phenotype to identify the malleable range within which appropriate intervention can minimise the risk to later health and decline in functional capacity in support of healthy ageing [32].…”

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The body composition phenotype of Irish adults aged 18–81 years

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The body composition phenotype of Irish adults aged 18–81 years

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“…The clinical usefulness of BIA techniques has been demonstrated in numerous studies: in nephrology [12,155] (identification of dry weight in renal patients, improvement of cardiovascular management, monitoring of fluid transfer during ultrafiltration, estimation of the volume of distribution of urea in the calculation of the Kt/V parameter, or nutritional assessment), in nutrition (chronic malnutrition [156], obesity [157,158], cachexia [159], sarcopenia [160], etc. ), during pregnancy [161] and lactation [162], for the risk assessment of various pathologies [163], as a marker or direct cause of diseases [164], during the process of decision making in a disease, during aging or a rehabilitation process [165], as a complement in the diagnosis and monitoring of conditions related to the cardiovascular system (fluid accumulation after cardiac surgery [155], hyponatremia [166], etc. ), in issues related to the immune system (patients with AIDS, dengue, hemorrhagic fever, and chronic inflammation [167]), in the evaluation of nutritional status in nervous system-related conditions (Alzheimer [155], anorexia nervosa [168], and mental disability [169]), in pediatrics [170], in oncology (evaluation of the patient's condition [155,171], early diagnosis [172], etc.…”

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Fundamentals, Recent Advances, and Future Challenges in Bioimpedance Devices for Healthcare Applications

2019

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This work develops a thorough review of bioimpedance systems for healthcare applications. The basis and fundamentals of bioimpedance measurements are described covering issues ranging from the hardware diagrams to the configurations and designs of the electrodes and from the mathematical models that describe the frequency behavior of the bioimpedance to the sources of noise and artifacts. Bioimpedance applications such as body composition assessment, impedance cardiography (ICG), transthoracic impedance pneumography, electrical impedance tomography (EIT), and skin conductance are described and analyzed. A breakdown of recent advances and future challenges of bioimpedance is also performed, addressing topics such as transducers for biosensors and Lab-on-Chip technology, measurements in implantable systems, characterization of new parameters and substances, and novel bioimpedance applications.

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“…Skinfold measurement is a low-cost method of regional body fat assessment, but has inherent methodological shortcomings. Errors in the collection of raw skinfold data are expected due to site-specific compression of adipose tissue and individual variations in the elasticity of the skin [15,16]. Additionally, researchers and practitioners should be wary of prediction equations that estimate total body fat percentage from skinfolds on the individual level [1,14].…”

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High inter-observer reliability in standardized ultrasound measurements of subcutaneous adipose tissue in children aged three to six years

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Müller

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Background: A procedure to measure subcutaneous adipose (SAT) using brightness-mode ultrasound has recently been standardized and applied to various groups of adults including underweight, overweight and obese adults. High reliability of this procedure was found in each of the examined groups. The purpose of this study was to determine inter-observer reliability of the standardized brightness-mode ultrasound measurement of uncompressed SAT in three to six-year-old children. Methods: Three experienced observers independently captured the ultrasound images at the eight standardized measurement sites in each of the 20 children and evaluated their images using an interactive software that detects the SAT contour and automatically measures multiple thicknesses in each image; the mean of these represents SAT thickness at a given site. The children were aged 4.9 ± 1.0 years; their body mass index ranged from 13.6-17.7 kgm − 2. Sound speed was set to 1450 ms − 1 for SAT. Results: SAT thickness sums with fibrous structures included (D I) ranged from 25.7-86.4 mm, mean D I was 48.1 ± 15.5 mm. For D I , resulting from 160 measurements by each observer, the intra-class correlation coefficient was 0.998 (95% confidence interval 0.980-0.999), standard error of the estimate was 1.1 mm, and 95% limits of agreement were within ±2.1 mm. The median difference in D I was 0.8 mm, i.e. about 1.9% of mean D I. Conclusions: Inter-observer results in children are comparable to previously described high reliability in adults. This method, which provides a technical thickness measurement accuracy of about 0.1 to 0.2 mm, enables monitoring of subcutaneous adipose tissue in children with a similarly high reliability as was obtained in adults previously.

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A Review of Body Composition Measurement in the Assessment of Health

Cited by 57 publications

References 33 publications

The body composition phenotype of Irish adults aged 18–81 years

The body composition phenotype of Irish adults aged 18–81 years

Fundamentals, Recent Advances, and Future Challenges in Bioimpedance Devices for Healthcare Applications

High inter-observer reliability in standardized ultrasound measurements of subcutaneous adipose tissue in children aged three to six years

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