Reference values for skeletal muscle mass and fat mass measured by bioelectrical impedance in 390 565 UK adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Loss of skeletal muscle mass (SMM) increases the risk of frailty and, together with excess fat mass (FM), is a risk factor for cardio-metabolic disease. However, use of body composition measurements in nutritional surveillance and routine clinical practice is limited by the lack of reference data. Our aim was to produce age-specific and sex-specific reference values for SMM and FM in the White ethnic adult population in the UK. Secondary objectives were to examine the tracking over time using a subsample of the population with repeated measures of body composition and to assess the validity of these reference values in different ethnic subgroups.

Methods

We used data from segmental bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in 390 565 participants, aged 40-69 years, i

SUBMITTER: Lee MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7113534 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature