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The use of 40K counting and its relationship to other estimates of lean body mass

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Advances in Parenteral Nutrition

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There has been a recent increase in awareness of the importance of nutritional support in clinical practice and the methods available for the provision of such care. Parenteral nutrition is important in patients unable to be fed by the oral route, while elemental and supplemental diets are of great value when a patient can satisfactorily accept nutrition by mouth. Irrespective of the method used it is important that accurate assessment of the patient’s nutritional status should precede therapy, and that a serial assessment of the response to feeding should be available. Frequently this is not the case, and as a result nutritional therapy is used in an uncontrolled manner with often erroneous clinical impressions of depletion or improvement.

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    Ivan D. A. Johnston

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Goode, A.W., Hawkins, T. (1978). The use of 40K counting and its relationship to other estimates of lean body mass. In: Johnston, I.D.A. (eds) Advances in Parenteral Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7188-5_36

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