ReviewEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2013
Evolution of bioimpedance: a circuitous journey from estimation of physiological function to assessment of body composition and a return to clinical research.
Review in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04630132 (Renal Ageing-sarcopenia Network), which is not on this map. Cited by 120 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Renal Ageing-sarcopenia Network: a Combined Genetic, Immunological and Psychological Approach to Dissect Frailty
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120 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 294 citations in OpenAlex.
- Preoperative bioelectrical impedance, measured phase angle, and hand-grip strength as predictors of postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a systematic review.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Pooled it
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- Phase angle of bioimpedance at 50 kHz is associated with cardiovascular diseases: systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Prognostic role of bioelectrical impedance phase angle for critically ill patients: A systemic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) in sport and exercise: Systematic review and future perspectives.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- Trial
- Suspension syndrome: a potentially fatal vagally mediated circulatory collapse-an experimental randomized crossover trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Phase angle reference values derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis in chinese multi-ethnic adults.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound: a complementary dynamic method to estimate target weight in pediatric hemodialysis.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Comparing the Values of Tissue Fluid Accumulation Using Tissue Dielectric Constant and Bioimpedance Analysis in Healthy Volunteers.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
- Associations between nutrition knowledge and anthropometric indicators in a pre-professional health population: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Baseline phase angle is associated with morphofunctional status, length of stay, and hospitalization costs in severe anorexia nervosa: the EDIGRA study.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Reliability of bioimpedance spectroscopy in the upper trapezius muscle.Journal of electromyography and kinesiology : official journal of the International Society of Electrophysiological Kinesiology · 2026Article
- Exploratory phase angle assessment after atrial fibrillation ablation in overweight patients: a pilot study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Article
- Observational
- Reference Tolerance Ellipses in Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis Across General, Pediatric, Pathological, and Athletic Populations: A Scoping Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Review
- In-hospital bioimpedance-derived total body water predicts short-term cardiovascular mortality and re-hospitalizations in acute decompensated heart failure patients.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2025Observational
- Association between bioelectrical impedance analysis parameters and muscle-related measurements obtained using a non-diagnostic ultrasound-based technique.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- The science of bioelectrical impedance-derived phase angle: insights from body composition in youth.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
- Cell Membrane Capacitance (Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesBioimpedance is the collective term that describes safe, non-invasive methods to measure the electrical responses to the introduction of a low-level, alternating current into a living organism, and the biophysical models to estimate body composition from bioelectrical measurements. Although bioimpedance techniques have been used for more than 100 years to monitor assorted biological components, the desire to translate bioelectrical measurements into physiological variables advanced the creation of empirical prediction models that produced inconsistent results. SUBJECTS/
methodsThis paper succinctly reviews the origin, and critically evaluates the conceptual models and the implementation of bioimpedance in clinical research, including indirect assessment of assorted physiological functions and body composition (fluid volumes and fat-free mass), classification of hydration, regional fluid accumulation, prognosis in disease and wound healing.
resultsDespite widespread and mounting interest in the use of bioimpedance to characterise body structure and function, most experimental findings reveal the limitations of existing physical models and reliance on multiple regression models for use in assessments of an individual.
conclusionsContemporary applications of bioimpedance emphasise the value of bioimpedance variables per se in some novel biomedical applications with the objective of identifying opportunities for future outcome-based research.
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