Impedance-based measures of muscle mass can be used to predict severity of hepatic steatosis in pediatric nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study was to investigate the association between measures of body composition based on bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and histologic severity of liver disease in a pediatric cohort with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Methods

This was a cross-sectional study of patients < 20 y old with histologically confirmed NAFLD followed in our Steatohepatitis Center from 2017 to 2019. Contemporaneous body-composition data were obtained using a multifrequency octopolar BIA device (InBody 370, InBody, Seoul, South Korea). BIA data collected were skeletal muscle mass, appendicular muscle mass, and percentage body fat. Skeletal and appendicular muscle mass were corrected for height (dividing by the square of height), generating their respec

SUBMITTER: Yodoshi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8595713 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature