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Plantar Callosities and the Validity of Body Composition Assessment by Bio-impedance in Severely Obese Persons

NCT01676883 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2016-06-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Studies have confirmed the association between plantar callosities and severely obese individuals. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is an increasingly popular tool for estimating body composition because it is easy to use, noninvasive, relatively inexpensive, and can be performed across a wide range of subjects.

Our hypotheses for this study are: (1)plantar callosities influence the body composition measurements obtained by bioelectrical impedance analysis BIA, and (2) BIA underestimates the percentage of body fat compared with air-displacement plethysmography (BodPod).

Conditions

  • Obesity, Morbid

Interventions

DEVICE

Bioelectric impedance

removal of calluses and corns by pedicure

DEVICE

Air displacement plethysmography

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Olavs Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Bård Kulseng, MD PhD · St. Olavs Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2013-03-31
Completion
2013-04-30

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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