Bone Abstracts

Background: Body composition changes during the developmental period and differs in children with idiopathic scoliosis (IS). No large-scale study has been performed to reveal the link between scoliotic deformity and body composition assessed by bioimpedance method (BIA). The study objective was to correlate the extent of scoliotic-curve severity with nutritional status of patients with IS based on standard anthropometrical analysis and BIA.Material and m...

Background: Based on our recent data, nutritional status disturbances (both under- and overweight) can be associated with the severity of scoliotic curve. Objectives: The study objective was to compare two methods for the assessment of nutritional status (routine BMI calculation vs body composition analysis by bioelectrical impedance analyzer (BIA)) in the group of pediatric patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS).Methods: 317 patients (240 girls/77 boys...