BACKGROUND Lean body mass (LBM) is an important nutritional measure representing muscle mass and somatic protein in hemodialysis patients, for whom we developed and tested equations to estimate LBM. STUDY DESIGN A study of diagnostic test accuracy. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS The development cohort included 118 hemodialysis patients with LBM measured using dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA)...

BACKGROUND A major consequence of malnutrition in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is the loss of lean body mass (LBM) and the subsequent impairment of respiratory muscle function. AIM To determine whether insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) could be related to the LBM depletion and the evolution of respiratory disease in CF patients. METHODS LBM was evaluated by dual energy x ray absorptiome...

BACKGROUND Decreased lean body mass (LBM) is common in breast cancer survivors yet currently there is a lack of information regarding the determinants of LBM after treatment, in particular, the effect of physical activity and dietary factors, such as long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (LCn-3) on LBM and LBM function. This cross-sectional study explored associations of LBM and function with LCn-3 in...

BACKGROUND Indirect methods such as anthropometry (A), Watson formula (W), creatinine kinetics (CK), and body electrical impedance (BEI) are increasingly applied to determine total body water (TBW) and lean body mass (LBM) in dialysis patients. These methods share the disadvantage that they have been validated for healthy men only. We studied which of these four commonly applied methods can bes...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the distribution of reduction in lean body mass (LBM) and whether LBM in legs (LBMlegs) can be a determinant of maximal exercise performance in COPD patients. METHODS Thirty-eight male outpatients with COPD (mean +/- SD FEV1, 47.4 +/- 24.0% of predicted) who underwent complete pulmonary function testing were classified into two groups according to FEV1 expressed...

Numerical technique Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM) is relatively new approach based on gas kinetic theory in meso-scale. Macroscopic variables such as pressure and velocity can be determined by momentum of so called particle distribution functions which are described by Boltzmann transport equation. LBM has been extensively studied in last several decades and witnessed as capable like conventio...

BACKGROUND Reduced lean body mass (LBM) is one of the main indicators in malnutrition inflammation syndrome among patients on dialysis. However, the influence of LBM on peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients' outcomes and the factors related to increasing LBM are seldom reported. METHODS We enrolled 103 incident PD patients between 2002 and 2003, and followed them until December 2011. Clinical cha...

Emerging many-core processors, like CUDA capable nVidia GPUs, are promising platforms for regular parallel algorithms such as the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM). Since global memory on graphic devices shows high latency and LBM is data intensive, memory access pattern is an important issue to achieve good performances. Whenever possible, global memory loads and stores should be coalescent and a...

Background: This study was aimed to evaluate the effects of physical exercise on bone mineral density (BMD), lean body mass (LBM) and bone biomarkers in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on chemotherapy. Methods: forty-six leukemic children were randomly assigned to two groups; exercise group (E) undergoing supervised mixed exercise program consisting of aerobic, resistance and flexib...

The components of body composition were studied in 56 second class rugby union football players: 28 forwards and 28 backs. Fowards were found to have 19.5% TBF (TOTAL BODY FAT) and 80.5% LBM (LEAN BODY MASS); backs 12.2% TBF and 87.8% LBM. It was felt that greater attention should be given to the ratio of TBF to LBM in determining body weight and that there should be an increased emphasis of th...