Existing equations to estimate lean body mass are not accurate in the critically ill: Results of a multicenter observational study

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1701-1706

  Moisey, Lesley L ^a   Mourtzakis, Marina ^a   Kozar, Rosemary A ^b   Compher, Charlene ^c   Heyland, Daren K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b R ADAMS COWLEY SHOCK TRAUMA CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Lean body mass; Predictive equation; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HEIGHT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; WEIGHT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85008626048     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2016.09.013     Document Type: Article

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