Comparison of body composition assessment by DXA and BIA according to the body mass index: A retrospective study on 3655 measures.

Comparison of body composition assessment by DXA and BIA according to the body mass index: A retrospective study on 3655 measures.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Body composition assessment is often used in clinical practice for nutritional evaluation and monitoring. The standard method, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), is hardly feasible in routine clinical practice contrary to Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) method. We thu...

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Main Authors: Najate Achamrah, Guillaume Colange, Julie Delay, Agnès Rimbert, Vanessa Folope, André Petit, Sébastien Grigioni, Pierre Déchelotte, Moïse Coëffier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6042744?pdf=render

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