RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Relationship between total body water and surface area in normal and obese subjects
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 234
OP 238
DO 10.1136/jcp.24.3.234
VO 24
IS 3
A1 R. Hume
A1 Elspeth Weyers
YR 1971
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/24/3/234.abstract
AB Total body water was measured using tritium in 30 males and 30 females. It was found that total body water could be predicted from height and weight, and formulae for both males and females have been produced with multiple correlation coefficients (r) of 0·95 and 0·96 respectively. The predicted total body water was found to be very closely related to the predicted surface area giving correlation coefficients (r) for males and females of 0·997 and 0·985 respectively.