Can Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis and BMI be a Prognostic Tool in Head and Neck Cancer Patients? A Review of the Evidence.

Maria Mantzorou, Maria Tolia, Antigoni Poultsidi, Eleni Pavlidou, Sousana K Papadopoulou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Constantinos Giaginis

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Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) for the Assessment of Body Composition in Oncology: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2023
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Association between the Processed Dietary Pattern and Tumor Staging in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.Cancers · 2023
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Dietary Habits Are Related to Phase Angle in Male Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022
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Bioelectrical-Impedance-Analysis in the Perioperative Nutritional Assessment and Prediction of Complications in Head-and-Neck Malignancies.OTO open
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7 authors.

Maria MantzorouDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Myrina, 814 00 Lemnos, Greece.

Maria ToliaRadiation Oncology Department, University of Thessaly, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, 413 34 Larissa, Greece.

Antigoni PoultsidiDepartment of Surgery, Medical School, University of Thessaly, 413 34 Larissa, Greece.

Eleni PavlidouDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Myrina, 814 00 Lemnos, Greece.

Sousana K PapadopoulouDepartment of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Hellenic International University, 570 01 Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dimitrios PapandreouDepartment of Health Sciences, CNHS, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi 144534, United Arab Emirates.

Constantinos GiaginisDepartment of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Environment, University of the Aegean, Myrina, 814 00 Lemnos, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID32121058

DOI10.3390/cancers12030557

PMCPMC7139769

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