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Endocrine Abstracts (2020) 70 AEP 500 | DOI: 10.1530/endoabs.70.AEP500

ECE2020 Audio ePoster Presentations Diabetes, Obesity, Metabolism and Nutrition (285 abstracts)

Comparative effectiveness of three methods for body composition assessment in the verification of manifestations of sarcopenia in obese patients

Valeriia Vasileva , Larisa Marchenkova & Valeriy Sergeev


National Medical Research Center of Rehabilitation and Balneology, Moscow, Russian Federation


Aim of the study was to compare the effectiveness of three methods of body composition assessment such as bioimpedans analysis (BIA), air-replacement bodyplatismography (BodPod) and Dual X-ray absorptiometry Total body program (DXA Total Body) in the verification of reducing of skeletal muscle mass as sign of sarcopenic obesity in obese patients.

Material and Methods: The study group included 95 patients aged 21–69 y.o. (average age 53.9 ± 11.05 years) with BMI ≥ 30.0 kg/m2. The control group included 37 patients aged 37–69 y.o (average age 50.73 ± 10.6 years) of the same age without obesity with BMI 20.0–29.9 kg/m2. Body composition was tested using BIA, BodPod and DXA with calculating fat, lean and skeletal muscles mass (kg) and % in all the patients.

Results: According to BIA the groups differ only in fat mass (FM) 42.75 (4.8;6.3) vs 33.15 (28.4;35.5) kg; P = 0.036 and did not differ (P > 0.05) in lean (LM), skeletal muscle mass (SMM) and in % of FM and SMM. According to BodPod analyses groups differed in the FM 3.4 [36.81; 69.94] vs 31.02 [23.22; 38] kg, P = 0.007, % FM 45.4 [42.1; 53.8] vs 37.7 [28.6; 41.1], P =0.003 and % LM – 54.6 [46.2; 57.9] vs 62.3 [58.9; 71.4], P =0.003, but had statistically equivalent values of LM 55 [49.48; 67.77] vs 40.36 [33.12; 49.06] kg, P = 0.19. According to DXA Total Body analyses statistically significant differences (P< 0.05) have been identified between the groups in FM and % FM of the hands, feet, trunk, total body (P > 0.05), but not in LM and % LM (P > 0.05).

Conclusions: From methods of body composition assessment, air-replacement bodyplatismography (BodPod) is the most sensitive in the verification of skeletal muscle mass reduction in obese patients. This method shows that patients with obesity have a significantly reduced muscle mass compared with normal weight or overweight subjects.

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22nd European Congress of Endocrinology

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05 Sep 2020 - 09 Sep 2020

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