Whole-body impedance - What does it measure?

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 64, Issue 3 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Foster, Kenneth R ^a   Lukaski, Henry C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

body composition; extracellular fluid; fat free mass; reactance; Resistance; total body water

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BODY COMPOSITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; TOTAL BODY WATER;

BODY COMPOSITION; BODY WATER; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0029784162     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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