Well you described something but didn't attach it to how this is going to drive recovery. Useless.
Body Cell Mass from Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Patients with Stroke Undergoing Rehabilitation
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Department of Science and Technology for Humans and the Environment, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy
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IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi ONLUS, 50143 Florence, Italy
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Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(6), 3965; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13063965
Received: 9 February 2023
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Revised: 16 March 2023
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Accepted: 17 March 2023
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Published: 21 March 2023
Abstract
The majority of BIA parameters have been
investigated in relation to post-stroke recovery, except for body cell
mass (BCM), which measures the body’s cellular components involved in
oxygen consumption and nutritional status. The aim of this longitudinal
prospective study was to investigate in a cohort of subacute post-stroke
patients undergoing rehabilitation the body composition parameters from
BIA and the relationship between these parameters, in particular BCM,
with both the performance in activity of daily living (ADL), measured by
Barthel’s Index at admission (BI T0), and the recovery in ADL, measured
by change in BI from baseline (ΔBI). We analyzed 66 patients, before
and after a six-week rehabilitation program and we found that patients’
body composition after the rehabilitation protocol did not change. All
lean mass and muscle quality parameters measured by BIA are positively
correlated with BI T0. Moreover, patients with better recovery had
higher values of BCM, such as other lean mass parameters and their
related height-adjusted indices. Furthermore, BCM was independently
associated both with ADL performance at admission, and most notably with
recovery. These results suggest that assessing BCM at admission not
only would improve the valuation of the nutritional status in
post-stroke patients but would also potentially predict their recovery.
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