José Moncada-Jiménez , Yamileth Chacón-Araya , Elizabeth Carpio-Rivera
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Abstract
Purpose
To determine the effect of dehydration on changes in body composition using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA).
Methodology
Sixty college students completed a non-exercise control (NEC) and an exercise-induced dehydration (EID) session. Both sessions were held on a climatized control laboratory at 30 °C and a relative humidity of 70 %. Exercise was performed on a stationary bicycle for 60-min at an intensity of 65 %–75 % of the reserve heart rate. Body composition was assessed by DXA before and after the sessions and the mean body composition differences were correlated with the degree of dehydration achieved by the participants.
Results
The experimental sessions elicited dehydration in all the participants (NEC = 0.50 ± 0.51 % vs. EID = 1.11 ± 0.45 %; p ≤ 0.0001; CI95%diff = −0.75, −0.47 %). In the NEC condition, dehydration (β = 0.51, p ≤ 0.0001) and age (β = 0.22, p = 0.046) predicted the difference in trunk tissue (R2 = 0.32). Dehydration (β = 0.93, p ≤ 0.0001) and gender (β = −0.11, p = 0.013) predicted the difference in total tissue (R2 = 0.90). Dehydration predicted differences in trunk lean mass (β = 0.37, p = 0.004, R2 = 0.14), total lean mass (β = 0.36, p = 0.004, R2 = 0.13), and total trunk mass (β = 0.52, p ≤ 0.0001, R2 = 0.27). Dehydration (β = 0.95, p ≤ 0.0001) and gender (β = −0.09, p = 0.015) predicted the difference in total mass (R2 = 0.94). For the EID condition, dehydration and gender predicted the difference in total tissue (βdehydration = 0.72, p ≤ 0.0001, βgender = −0.27, p = 0.001, R2 = 0.71) and total mass (βdehydration = 0.75, p ≤ 0.0001, βgender = −0.27, p ≤ 0.0001, R2 = 0.77). Dehydration (β = 0. 32, p = 0.012) predicted differences in total lean mass (R2 = 0.10).
Conclusion
Age, gender and dehydration predicted differences in body composition scores. Technicians and researchers must control hydration status before DXA scan sessions.
期刊介绍:
Clinical Nutrition ESPEN is an electronic-only journal and is an official publication of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN). Nutrition and nutritional care have gained wide clinical and scientific interest during the past decades. The increasing knowledge of metabolic disturbances and nutritional assessment in chronic and acute diseases has stimulated rapid advances in design, development and clinical application of nutritional support. The aims of ESPEN are to encourage the rapid diffusion of knowledge and its application in the field of clinical nutrition and metabolism. Published bimonthly, Clinical Nutrition ESPEN focuses on publishing articles on the relationship between nutrition and disease in the setting of basic science and clinical practice. Clinical Nutrition ESPEN is available to all members of ESPEN and to all subscribers of Clinical Nutrition.