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Clinical Applications of Phase Angle and Bioelectrical Impedance Vectorial Analysis to Evaluate Nutritional and Fluid Status

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Lilia Castillo-Martínez

Lilia Castillo-Martínez

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico

Dr. Lilia Castillo-Martínez currently works as Medical Science Researcher D at Nutrition Department of Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico. She is a Statistical Professor in Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Lilia does research the association of handgrip strength, body composition and fluid retention evaluated by bioelectrical impedance in patients with heart failure, arthritis patients or cancer in mortality and other outcomes, as well as effects of diet and exercise in these parameters

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Accurate nutritional and fluid evaluation at the time of disease diagnosis and during medical nutritional treatment follow-up is necessary. However, nutritional evaluation is not a routine practice in the clinical setting and procedures need to be standardized. Also, tools used in the general population, such as biomarkers and anthropometric measures, maybe not be reliable in the context of chronic diseases such as heart failure, renal failure, liver disease, arthritis, and cancer, where malnutrition may coexist with fluid overload and systemic inflammation that may be hindering changes in body cell mass. Thus, identifying additional nutritional assessment tools to properly identify such as bioelectrical impedance vectorial analysis is crucial for diagnosis and monitoring.<br /> We propose a collection of videos that describes how to employ phase angle and bioelectrical impedance vectorial analysis to evaluate nutritional and fluid status in clinical practice, including patients with chronic disease and fluid retention or disturbances.

 

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Evaluation of Fluid Overload by Bioelectrical Impedance Vectorial Analysis
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Evaluation of Fluid Overload by Bioelectrical Impedance Vectorial Analysis

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