The increasing incidence of obesity and the wider acceptance of laparoscopic surgery, have lead to a 10-fold increase in bariatric operations in the last 10 years. Widely used indices of obesity (weight and body mass index - BMI) cannot adequately distinguish between fat mass (FM), represented by the sum of kilograms (kg) of lipid, and fat-free mass (FFM), inclusive of lean (kg of proteins), bone (kg of minerals), glycogen, and total body water (TBW), which are important parameters for clinical and physiological studies.
Is digital image plethysmographic (DIP) acquisition a valid new tool for preoperative body composition assessment? A validation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry / Di Lorenzo, Nicola; Servidio, M; Di Renzo, Laura; Orlandi, C; Coscarella, G; Gaspari, Achille; De Lorenzo, Antonino. - In: OBESITY SURGERY. - ISSN 0960-8923. - 16:5(2006), p. 560-6. [10.1381/096089206776945011]
Is digital image plethysmographic (DIP) acquisition a valid new tool for preoperative body composition assessment? A validation by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
DI LORENZO, NICOLA;
2006
Abstract
The increasing incidence of obesity and the wider acceptance of laparoscopic surgery, have lead to a 10-fold increase in bariatric operations in the last 10 years. Widely used indices of obesity (weight and body mass index - BMI) cannot adequately distinguish between fat mass (FM), represented by the sum of kilograms (kg) of lipid, and fat-free mass (FFM), inclusive of lean (kg of proteins), bone (kg of minerals), glycogen, and total body water (TBW), which are important parameters for clinical and physiological studies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
