Is Fluid Overload as Measured by Bioimpedance Spectroscopy Harmful in CKD—If So, Why?
Author(s) -
Lee A. Hebert,
Samir M. Parikh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.11311114
Subject(s) - medicine , observational study , epiphenomenon , cohort study , heart failure , randomized controlled trial , adverse effect , intensive care medicine , cardiology , epistemology , philosophy
Bioimpedance spectroscopy (BIS) technology to assess clinical fluid status has been around for more than two decades. In patients with CKD, BIS has not created much of a splash until just recently ([1][1],[2][2]). The most recent BIS splash is in this issue of CJASN ([3][3]). Here, Tsai et al. ([3][
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