New Reference Values for Body Composition by Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in the General Population: Results From the UK Biobank

Bioelectrical impedance phase angle relates to function, disease severity and prognosis in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

“…In other stable populations similar MRC dyspnea and health status scores have been observed in patients with low and normal FFMI [34,37]. There is ongoing debate about what constitutes a low or normal FFMI [29], though this issue has recently been helped by age-, sex-and BMI-stratified reference values used in this study [16]. In our stable population, phase angle was more closely related to functional outcomes and markers of disease severity than FFM and FFMI.…”

“…Individual FFMI values were categorized as being low or normal; falling below or above the fifth percentile of age-, sex-and BMI-stratified reference values from the UK Biobank (n ¼ 186,975) [16].…”

Analysis of the Associations between Obesity Indices and Left Ventricular Mass

“…Possible reasons are: BMI is a measure of the overall obesity index and it is vulnerable to the effects of bone and muscle weight, so it can not accurately reflect fat distribution. WC can reflect the accumulation of abdominal fat, but it cannot distinguish subcutaneous fat or visceral fat, and it quite obviously differs depending on factors like gender and height [35]. The subgroup analysis comparing patients aged < 65 years and those aged ≥65 years had lower BMI and WC ( p < 0.05), but higher VAI ( p < 0.05), values.…”

Correlation of ankle-brachial index and peripheral artery disease with the status of body fat deposition and metabolic syndrome in asymptomatic premenopausal women

“…Based on the previous literature, visceral fat content was less than 13% of the total body fat% [15]. In depth details regarding the techniques of Tanita Segmental Body Composition Analyzer and ViScan are reported elsewhere [15,16].…”