ReviewReviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders2023
Phase angle (PhA) in overweight and obesity: evidence of applicability from diagnosis to weight changes in obesity treatment.
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- Association between phase angle and the nutritional status in pediatric populations: a systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
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- Rethinking Biva in obesity: systematic vector displacement across the adiposity spectrum.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2026Article
- Weight management in obese cancer patients during curative active treatment: protocol for the CANOBESE feasibility study.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2026Article
- Association of the phase angle with type 2 diabetes and related traits: results from two prospective KORA studies.Nutrition & diabetes · 2026Article
- Relationship Between Prognostic Nutritional Index and Stroke-Associated Pneumonia in Elderly Patients: A Two-Center Study of Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage.Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Higher Dietary Antioxidant Index Is Associated with Better Lipid Profile in Women with Coronary Artery Disease.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The impact of the preoperative value of phase angle in bioelectrical impedance analysis on postoperative complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy.Annals of hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgery · 2026Article
- Relevance of standardized phase angle and bioelectrical impedance vectors in hospitalized older patients: A cohort study.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026Article
- Extracellular Water and Phase Angle, Markers of Heightened Inflammatory State, and Their Extrapolative Potential for Body Composition Outcomes in Adults.Metabolites · 2026Article
- Differential predictive value of phase angle for malnutrition and physical impairment in respiratory patients: the moderating role of sarcopenia.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Phase angle as a predictor of nutritional status and quality of life in hemodialysis patients.PloS one · 2026Article
- Phase angle as a potential marker of early nutritional and metabolic changes following metabolic bariatric surgery: a retrospective study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Prediction of phase angle based on body composition: Insights from a large population-based registry.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- Phase Angle in Bioelectrical Impedance: New Perspectives in Health and Body Composition Assessment.Physiological research · 2025Observational
- Exploring obesity phenotypes: a longitudinal perspective.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Review
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- Association between bioelectrical impedance analysis parameters and muscle-related measurements obtained using a non-diagnostic ultrasound-based technique.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- Once-Weekly Semaglutide Improves Body Composition in Spanish Obese Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A 48-Week Prospective Real-Life Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Phase angle (PhA) is a recently proposed marker of nutritional status in many clinical conditions. Its use in patients with obesity presents different critical concerns due to the higher variability of the two measured parameters (resistance, R, and reactance, Xc) that contribute to the determination of PhA. Controversial is the relation between PhA and BMI that might vary with graded levels of obesity due to the variation in fat and free fat mass. Obesity is frequently associated with metabolic, hepatic, cardiovascular and kidney diseases that introduce variations in PhA values, in relation to multimorbidity and severity degree of these diseases. It is reported that the improvement of clinical condition is associated with a positive change in PhA. Also, the treatment of obesity with weight loss might confirm this effect, but with different responses in relation to the type and duration of the intervention applied. In fact, the effect appears not only related to the percentage of weight loss but also the possible loss of free fat mass and the nutritional, metabolic and structural modifications that might follow each therapeutic approach to decrease body weight. We can conclude that the PhA could be used as marker of health status in patients with obesity supporting an appropriate weight loss intervention to monitor efficacy and fat free mass preservation.
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