Bioimpedance, Total Body Water and Phase Angle of Preschool Czech Children: Preliminary Study

Autor: Olga Stepankova, Lenka Vyslouzilova, Lenka Lhotska, J. Hlubik, Jan Kriz
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IFMBE Proceedings ISBN: 9783030316341
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-31635-8_90
Popis: This study is a presentation of our ongoing process of obtaining body composition and electrical parameters from sufficient cohort of normal healthy children in Czech Republic that are currently not known. At the moment, 37 children have been fully measured and their parameters evaluated. The measured group consisted of 17 boys and 20 girls and their age was 5 to 6 years. Results are showing that hydration status and electrical parameters of children are approximately the same in the time of leave and in the time of arrival kindergarten. However, changes that are reported through all measurements indicate some specific behavior of bioelectrical values during children day cycle. Bioimpedance seems to act as a possible marker, that can describe in future body composition in another perspective than classical body composition parameters. Further work is needed to obtain sufficient cohort of normal healthy children and to be able to estimate new electrical parameters that may be used as reliable predictors of a health status of the child without using empirical equations or BMI.
Databáze: OpenAIRE