TOTAL BODY WATER-CONCEPTS
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SUMMARY
1. ~60% of body weight
2. Higher in men than women
3. Reduced with age
4. Used to measure ICF
5. Inversely proportional to fat, so it is decreased by obesity and in Cushing’s disease
Reference(s)
Barrett, K.E., Barman, S.M., Boitano, S., Brooks, H.L., Weitz, M., Brian Patrick Kearns, Ganong, W.F. and Mcgraw-Hill Education (Firm (2016). Ganong’s review of medical physiology. 25th ed. New York: Mcgraw Hill Education.
Hall, J.E. and Hall, M.E. (2020). Guyton And Hall Textbook Of Medical Physiology. 14th ed. S.L.: Elsevier - Health Science.
West, J.B. and Luks, A.M. (2021). West’s Pulmonary Pathophysiology. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
