Theoretical and practical facts about health electric bioimpedance

Authors

  • Lidyce Quesada Leyva
  • Cira Cecilia León Ramentol
  • José Betancourt Bethencourt
  • Elizabet Nicolau Pestana

Keywords:

bioimpedancia eléctrica, ángulo de fase, composición corporal

Abstract

Background: electric bioimpedance is a technique used to measure the body composition humans have. It is based on the body’s capacity to conduct electricity. It allows to measure bioelectrical parameters in biological systems.
Objective: to describe practical and theoretical elements about electric bioimpedance that permit different health specialists to know its practical usage for health care and research.
Methods: a literature search was carried out in database platforms of the web on Cuban health information INFOMED, among them, EBSCOhost, PubMed, Clinical Key and SciELO. Electric bioimpedance in health and health electric bioimpedance were the descriptors used.
Development: the electrical bioimpedance as a technique to assess body composition were describe. Aspects related to its advantages, limitations and applications of bioimpedance are presented.
Conclusions: the use of electric impedance for the analysis of the body composition is presented as a non-invasive technique of great precision, which in a short period of time allows obtaining reliable data for the assessment of hydration and nutrition states either in healthy or ill people due to different causes.
DeCS:ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC.

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Author Biography

Lidyce Quesada Leyva

Soy médico veterinaria, trabajo en los laboratorios del Centro de inmunologia y productos biológicos de la univercidad de Ciencias Médicas Camaguey,

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Published

2016-10-25

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Quesada Leyva L, León Ramentol CC, Betancourt Bethencourt J, Nicolau Pestana E. Theoretical and practical facts about health electric bioimpedance. Arch méd Camagüey [Internet]. 2016 Oct. 25 [cited 2025 Aug. 3];20(5):565-78. Available from: https://revistaamc.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/4373

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 5 (2016)

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Review Articles

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