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Body cell mass is a useful parameter for assessing malnutrition and severity of disease in non-ascitic cirrhotic patients with

Hepatology
Author
TAKUMI KAWAGUCHI
Used Parameters : TBW, BCM

Publication Year : 2008

Country : Japan

Journal : International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Body cell mass (BCM) is a nutritional parameter, however, changes in BCM in patients with non-ascitic liver cirrhosis (LC) in comparison to patients with other malnutritional diseases remains unclear. We investigated the difference in BCM between patients with LC and malnourished gastrointestinal disease controls (M. CON), and examined the relationship between BCM and the severity of LC. Results demonstrated that serum nutritional parameters were not significantly different between the LC (n= 56) and M. CON groups (n …
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