Use of bioimpedance as an early diagnosis tool in patients with diabetes.

Abstract The use of bioimpedance has made important advances in recent years, achieving estimation of body composition, such as water, fat mass, muscle mass, or ions, among others. These determinations could be used to corroborate clinical diagnoses. In this study, the body composition of university subjects was determined using bioimpedance and compared with biochemical determinations of metabolic analytes (lipoproteins, triglycerides, and lipids) in diabetic and healthy conditions. The results showed an increase in total fat mass in both men and women, as well as a decrease in skeletal muscle and an increase in visceral fat; such @indings correlate with metabolic analytes concentrations in healthy vs. diabetic. In conclusion, the use of bioimpedance as a tool for early diagnosis in the diabetic population could take on considerable relevance since, by associating the increase in a speci@ic tissue, it can be taken as a particular indicator of a possible pathology, for instance, diabetes, as shown in this study.