Deans' stroke musings: Usefulness of body composition assessment by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in subacute post-stroke patients in rehabilitation

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Usefulness of body composition assessment by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in subacute post-stroke patients in rehabilitation

I see nothing that would get survivors recovered, you're all fired!

Usefulness of body composition assessment by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in subacute post-stroke patients in rehabilitation

Scientific Reports volume 15, Article number: 1774 (2025) Cite this article

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Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis (BIVA) is a valuable tool for evaluating hydration and body composition, but its application in subacute post-stroke patients remains unexplored. This study aimed to fill this gap by analyzing BIVA in a cohort of 87 subacute post-stroke patients (42 women, mean age 69 ± 12) undergoing rehabilitation. At admission (T0), diagnosis of malnutrition with GLIM criteria and of sarcopenia with EWGSOP2 was done, and patients were analyzed with BIVA. The change in modified Barthel Index (mBIT1-mBIT0) was assessed to evaluate the improvement in functional recovery. BIVA revealed that both adult patients (< 65 years, n = 29) and elderly patients (≥ 65 years, n = 58) exhibited high body fluid overload and low muscle mass. Additionally, BIVA revealed a significant rightward shift of the bioimpedance vectors in malnourished (n = 37) versus non-malnourished patients (T2 = 56.9, p < 0.001, D = 1.68) and in sarcopenic (n = 24) versus non-sarcopenic patients (T2 = 36.4, p < 0.001, D = 1.5). Lastly, the BIVA distinguished patients with greater improvement (n = 53) from patients with lower improvement (n = 34) (T2 = 10.6, p = 0.007, D = 0.7). In conclusion, BIVA is an effective, easy-to-use tool for evaluating hydration, nutritional status, and recovery in post-stroke rehabilitation.(None of which gets survivors recovered! Do some useful work at least once in your life!)