Published 2018-01-01
“…Results: Five RCTs (with 904 adult participants) and eight non-randomised studies (with 4915 adult participants) assessing the use of the Body Composition Monitor [(BCM) Fresenius Medical Care,
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany] were included. Both absolute overhydration and relative overhydration were significantly lower in patients evaluated using BCM measurements than for those evaluated using standard clinical methods [weighted mean difference –0.44, 95% confidence interval (CI) –0.72 to –0.15, p = 0.003, I2 = 49%; and weighted mean difference –1.84, 95% CI –3.65 to –0.03; p = 0.05, I2 = 52%, respectively]. …”
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