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Agreement of bioelectrical resistance, reactance, and phase angle values from supine and standing bioimpedance analyzers

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Dellinger, Jacob R, Johnson, Baylor A, Benavides, Marqui L, Moore, M Lane, Stratton, Matthew T, Harty, Patrick S, Siedler, Madelin R, Tinsley, Grant M·2021·Physiological Measurement

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Objective . Bioimpedance devices are commonly used to assess health parameters and track changes in body composition. However, the cross-sectional agreement between different devices has not been conclusively established. Thus, the objective of this investigation was to examine the agreement between raw bioelectrical variables (resistance, reactance, and phase angle at the 50 kHz frequency) obtained from three bioimpedance analyzers. Approach . Healthy male ( n = 76, mean ± SD; 33.8 ± 14.5 years; 83.9 ± 15.1 kg; 179.4 ± 6.9 cm) and female ( n = 103, mean ± SD; 33.4 ± 15.9 years; 65.6 ± 12.1 kg; 164.9 ± 6.4 cm) participants completed assessments using three bioimpedance devices: supine bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS), supine single-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (SFBIA), and standing multi-frequency bioelectrical impedance analysis (MFBIA). Differences in raw bioelectrical variables between the devices were quantified via one-way analysis of variance for the total sample and for each sex. Equivalence testing was used to determine equivalence between methods. Main results . Significant differences in all bioelectrical variables were observed between the three devices when examining the total sample and males only. The devices appeared to exhibit slightly better agreement when analyzing female participants only. Equivalence testing using the total sample as well as males and females separately revealed that resistance and phase angle were equivalent between the supine devices (BIS, SFBIA), but not with the standing analyzer (MFBIA). Significance . The present study demonstrated disagreement between different bioimpedance analyzers for quantifying raw bioelectrical variables, with the poorest agreement between devices that employed different body positions during testing. These results suggest that researchers and clinicians should employ device-specific reference values to classify participants based on raw bioelectrical variables, such as phase angle. If reference values are needed but are unavailable for a particular bioimpedance analyzer, the set of reference values produced using the most similar analyzer and reference population should be selected.

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  • The present findings cannot be generalized to other sport disciplines, females, sub-elite or adolescent players, and cannot be extended to BIA measures from different technologies or sampling frequencies due to lack of agreement between bioelectrical impedance analysers.

    “Lastly, the present findings cannot be generalized to other sport disciplines, females, sub-elite or adolescent players, and they cannot be extended to BIA-measures obtained from different technologies or sampling frequencies due to the lack of agreement between bioelectrical impedance analysers [53, 54].”

    From Athletic bioimpedance-based equations underestimate fat free mass components in male elite soccer players: development and validation of new soccer-specific predictive models (2023) · cites this paper as [53]

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  • There is a lack of agreement between bioelectrical values obtained at different frequencies.

    “considering the lack of agreement between bioelectrical values obtained at different frequencies [21, 107]”

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    The Conclusion reports varying degrees of agreement in bioelectrical values from different analyzers, so the claim captures a real concern about agreement. But the Discussion says the comparison examined values at the same 50 kHz frequency and that using a single- versus multi-frequency analyzer was relatively unimportant there. The paper does not establish a lack of agreement between values obtained at different frequencies; it chiefly associates discrepancies with device configuration. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Different bioelectrical impedance analysis devices using the same technology may yield different outcomes due to potential between-device inconsistencies.

    “different devices using the same technology may yield different outcomes due to potential between-device inconsistencies [106], even though agreement has been observed [21].”

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Authors
Dellinger, J. R., Johnson, B. A., Benavides, M. L., Moore, M. L., Stratton, M. T., Harty, P. S., Siedler, M. R., & Tinsley, G. M.
Affiliations
Texas Tech University (US)
Corresponding author
Tinsley, Grant M
Venue
Physiological Measurement
Published
2021-03-01
Volume
42
Issue
3
Pages
035003
ISSN
  • 0967-3334 (ISSN-L)
  • 1361-6579
OpenAlex
W3130431162
Cited by
52
References
22
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 7
FWCI
5.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Physiological Measurement (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Electrical and Bioimpedance Tomography
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
Keywords
bioelectrical impedance analysis, phase angle, bioimpedance spectroscopy, measurement agreement, reference values, sex differences
MeSH terms
Body Composition, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Spectrum Analysis, Electric Impedance

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