Coordinated contractions and motility patterns unique to each gastrointestinal organ facilitate the digestive process. These motor activities are coordinated by bioelectrical events, sensory and motor nerves, and hormones. The motility problems in th...
Background: Bioelectrical impedance measurement is a technique used in engineering (development of different wearable biosensors with diverse applications), in the medical field (health monitoring and diagnosis), and in biomedical research (fundament...
Bioelectrical or electrophysiological signals generated by living cells or tissues during daily physiological activities are closely related to the state of the body and organ functions, and therefore are widely used in clinical diagnosis, health mon...
Return-to-play (RTP) decisions after severe knee injury in elite athletes remain challenging because functional recovery may not coincide with physiological tissue recovery. This longitudinal case report evaluated Advanced 19-Frequency Bioelectrical...
In this study, we present a pilot investigation using a single Purple Heart plant (Tradescantia pallida) to explore whether bioelectrical signals for dual-purpose classification tasks: environmental state detection and human emotion recognition. Usin...
Objective: Since specific bioelectrical reference values for Italian adults are lacking, this study aims to define specific values and test their suitability in pathological cases and athletes. Methods: A sample of 1049 Italian individuals (441 men,...
Nanotechnology continues to advance rapidly, revealing previously unexplored directions in nanoscale communications. Biological and electromagnetic nanonetworks—established communication paradigms at the nanoscale—have shifted interest to...
Whole-body bioelectrical impedance analysis for measuring body composition has been well-explored but may not be sensitive enough to changes in the trunk compared to changes in the limbs. Measuring individual body segments can address this issue. A s...
There has been increasing interest in understanding body composition in early life and factors that may influence its evolution. While several technologies exist to measure body composition in infancy, the equipment is typically large, and thus not r...
Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by progressive vascular dysfunction and remains a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality worldwide. Endothelial dysfunction is an early and critical event in atherogenes...
(1) Background: The determination of body composition is an important method to investigate patients with obesity and to evaluate the efficacy of individualized medical interventions. Bioelectrical impedance-based methods are non-invasive and widely...
Fibroblasts play a fundamental role in maintaining tissue architecture, regulating repair processes, and adapting to metabolic and inflammatory stress. Increasing evidence indicates that endogenous bioelectrical states contribute to gene expression r...
Inter-cellular communication is mediated by a sum of biochemical, biophysical, and bioelectrical signals. This might occur not only between cells belonging to the same tissue and/or animal species but also between cells that are, from an evolutionary...
Body composition measurement plays an important role in the nutritional diagnosis and treatment of diseases. In the past 30 years, the detection of body composition based on bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has been widely used and explored in...
Body composition (BC) determines strength, power, and agility in sports such as rugby. Not only is the study of morphology and BC essential to establish player positions, but it also allows the optimisation of competitive performance. The aim of this...
Muscle strength can define the general muscular fitness (MF) measurable through hand-grip strength (HG), which is a factor that relates to the health of people of different ages. In this study we evaluated the muscle strength together with a bioimped...
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Few data are available on the body composition of pole dancers. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a method that is used to estimate fat-free mass (FFM) and fat mass (FM), while raw BIA variables, such as the impedance ratio (IR) and phase ang...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) has a wide range of applications. For over 25 years, it has primarily been utilized for assessing body composition. This method is non-invasive, portable, widely available, cost-effective, and user-friendly, off...
Background/Objectives: Advanced childhood cerebral X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (cALD) is traditionally regarded as an irreversible terminal phase of neurodegeneration driven by inflammatory demyelination and axonal loss. Experimental evidence indic...
Background/Objectives: Musculoskeletal pain is one of the leading causes of years lived with disability worldwide and has a negative impact on daily life and quality of life. Methods: The purpose of this study was to analyze the electrical characteri...
Introduction: Malnutrition is a recognized risk factor for unfavorable clinical outcomes and complications in cardiovascular and surgical patients. Nutritional status can be assessed with various methods, and the phase angle (PA) derived from bioelec...
Pregnancy is a time of significant changes occurring in the composition of a woman’s body in order to provide support for the growth and development of the foetus. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is used to assess the body composition and hydr...
The objective of this study was to investigate the empirical evidence to support the use of bioimpedance analysis in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). The Methods: A systematic review of “PubMed/Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, Web of Science, PSY...
Background. The association between malnutrition and poor outcomes in stroke patients has, to date, been evaluated using composite scores derived from laboratory measurements. However, Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) and its advanced applicati...
The aim of the current study was to evaluate the possibility of application of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in order to estimate pork quality. The BIA measurements were tested on 18 living animals for the prediction of the meat quality. The...
Background and Clinical Significance: Childhood obesity and its associated complications are an emerging public health problem; thus, non-communicable chronic disease prevention should be implemented as early as possible. On the other hand, obesity m...
Cutaneous wound healing is governed by dynamically interacting mechanical, redox, and bioelectrical signals that regulate cell migration, inflammation, angiogenesis, extracellular-matrix remodeling, and tissue regeneration. Hydrogels are increasingly...
Microneedle array (MNA) electrodes have garnered significant attention for their capacity to record high-fidelity surface bioelectrical signals over extended periods and convenience. However, accuracy limitations in 3D-printed metal MNA electrodes, p...
Background: Visceral obesity is increasingly recognised not as a simple excess of adipose tissue, but as a systemic pathological condition characterised by profound metabolic, endocrine, and immune dysregulation. Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) operate...
Introduction: Athletic performance is greatly impacted by hydration status. The combination of several techniques is recommended to accurately measure water losses and gains. Aim: The aim of this study is to assess the validity of bioelectrical imped...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a body composition assessment method. We aimed to determine its accuracy in the detection of sarcopenia in patients with liver cirrhosis (LC), using skeletal muscle index (SMI) at the level of third lumbar ve...
Cancer cell lines are important tools for anticancer drug research and assessment. Impedance measurements can provide valuable information about cell viability in real time. This work presents the proof-of-concept development of a bioelectrical, impe...
Raw bioelectrical impedance (BI) data and vector analysis (BIVA) have been used to evaluate fat-free mass (FFM) cross-sectionally in adolescent athletes; however, there have been no longitudinal studies about it. This study aimed to assess the magnit...
Cerebral autoregulation refers to the ability of cerebral vasculature to maintain stable blood flow by adjusting vascular resistance in response to changes in perfusion pressure. With advancing age, this regulatory capacity gradually declines, and it...
Chronic low-grade inflammation, altered microvascular support, and progressive stress-related cellular dysfunction are major contributors to tissue aging and impaired repair. Dermal fibroblasts are central regulators of these processes because they i...
Background: Children with spina bifida (SB) face an elevated risk of obesity, which necessitates precise methods for assessing body composition to ensure effective weight management. Conventional measures like BMI are inadequate for this population b...
Background: Phase angle could be an alternative to subjective global assessment for the assessment of nutrition status in patients with head-and-neck cancer. Methods: We prospectively evaluated a cohort of 75 stage IIIB and IV head-and-neck patients...
Background: Head and neck patients are prone to malnutrition. Perioperative fluids administration in this patient group may influence nutritional status. We aimed to investigate perioperative changes in patients undergoing major head and neck surgery...
Sarcopenia is emerging as a severe complication in type 2 diabetes (T2DM). On the other hand, it has been documented that nutritional aspects, such as insufficient protein or total energy intake, increase sarcopenia risk. The analysis of body composi...
Purpose: This study aimed to verify whether bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) can support the clinical evaluation of sarcopenia in elderly individuals and evaluate the relationships between phase angle (PhA), physical performance, and mu...
As it was mentioned in the previous part of this work (Part I)—the advanced signal processing methods are one of the quickest and the most dynamically developing scientific areas of biomedical engineering with their increasing usage in current clinic...
Background: Some studies have shown that an increase in visceral fat is associated with postoperative clinical and oncologic outcomes. However, no studies have used bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to determine the effects of visceral fat on th...
Donor safety remains an important concern. We introduced preoperative bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in living donor hepatectomy, as it is a practical method for volemia assessment with the advantages of noninvasiveness, rapid processing, eas...
This study proposed a noninvasive blood glucose estimation system based on dual-wavelength photoplethysmography (PPG) and bioelectrical impedance measuring technology that can avoid the discomfort created by conventional invasive blood glucose measur...
The purpose of this study was to examine the predictive value of phase angle (PhA) in chronic spinal cord injury (SCI). This study includes 104 participants (52 for each group) of SCI patients and healthy subjects (HS) treated at the Indian Spinal In...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a widely used technique in clinical and research settings because it provides non-invasive estimates of body composition. However, the quality of a measurement depends on more than the perceived accuracy and...
Background: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), known for its utility in monitoring fluid balance and lymphedema progression, is non-invasive and practical. However, circumferential tape measurements remain the gold standard for assessing limb vo...
The study of body composition (BC) allows evaluating nutritional status, optimizing competitive performance, and monitoring the success of training regimens in athletes. Since BC reference techniques are expensive and/or invasive, in practice simpler...
Background and Objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a systemic condition in which muscle wasting, malnutrition, and altered fluid balance strongly influence prognosis. While spirometry remains essential for diagnosis and stagin...
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Raw bioelectrical values can be used to assess physiological outcomes, though limited information is available concerning the relationships between changes in these values and changes in other variables of interest.
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