Body composition: why, when and for who?

R Thibault, L Genton, C Pichard - Clinical nutrition, 2012 - Elsevier
… The low FFMI is correlated with clinical prognosis in numerous clinical conditions (Table 1). …
data in oncology patients justify the wide implementation of body composition assessment …

Relationships between right ventricular function, body composition, and prognosis in advanced heart failure

V Melenovsky, M Kotrc, BA Borlaug, T Marek… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
… the impact of RV function on body composition. We hypothesized that RV dysfunction is
linked to weight loss, abnormal body composition, and worsened prognosis in advanced HF. …

Body composition and prognosis in chronic systolic heart failure: the obesity paradox

CJ Lavie, AF Osman, RV Milani… - American Journal of …, 2003 - ajconline.org
… parameters, such as percent body fat. This study examines the impact of obesity and specific
various body composition parameters on clinical outcomes in patients with chronic systolic …

Body composition and heart failure prevalence and prognosis: getting to the fat of the matter in the “obesity paradox”

CJ Lavie, RV Milani, HO Ventura… - mayo clinic …, 2010 - mayoclinicproceedings.org
… report a detailed body composition assessment in 140 patients with chronic HF, including
assessment of BF, by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA). Compared with DEXA, use of …

The evaluation of body composition: a useful tool for clinical practice

R Thibault, C Pichard - Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2012 - karger.com
… cancer patientsprognosis through the improvement of the tolerance of chemotherapy. These
findings justify the systematic evaluation of body composition in all cancer patients in order …

Validation of a new prognostic body composition parameter in cancer patients

E Cereda, M Caraccia, C Klersy, S Cappello, A Turri… - Clinical Nutrition, 2021 - Elsevier
… of body composition and its prognostic value. We evaluated the prognostic value of a new
body compositionbody cell mass and its association with nutritional and functional status. …

prognostic significance of body composition abnormalities in patients with cirrhosis

M Ebadi, RA Bhanji, P Tandon… - Alimentary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… understanding of the impact of ethnicity on body composition abnormalities and related
prognosis in cirrhosis. Differences in body composition between males and females might be …

Association between direct measures of body composition and prognostic factors in chronic heart failure

A Oreopoulos, JA Ezekowitz, FA McAlister… - Mayo Clinic …, 2010 - Elsevier
… In this study of patients with CHF in whom body composition was directly measured, … body
fat lead to misclassification of 41% of patients with CHF. Directly measured body composition

[HTML][HTML] Cachectic body composition and inflammatory markers portend a poor prognosis in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer treated with …

P Naumann, J Eberlein, B Farnia, J Liermann… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
… Herein, we assess body composition and laboratory markers for cancer cachexia both before
and after neoadjuvant chemoradiation (CRT). Methods: Subcutaneous fat (SCF), visceral …

Impact of body weight and body composition on ovarian cancer prognosis

SA Purcell, SA Elliott, CH Kroenke, MB Sawyer… - Current oncology …, 2016 - Springer
… is a better predictor of survival than body weight in ovarian cancer patients, but the direction
of … , body composition as an indicator of nutritional status is a better prognostic tool than body