Mean Expected Error in Prediction of Total Body Water: A True Accuracy Comparison between Bioimpedance Spectroscopy and Single Frequency Regression Equations

Table 7

Mean absolute deviation predicting TBW: evaluation of accuracy.

%		EBI modality	Method	Liters
Women; (mean ± SD)	Men; (mean ± SD)			Women; (mean ± SD)	Men; (mean ± SD)
4.47 ± 3.3	4.85 ± 3.3	BIS	Moissl et al. [24]	1.53 ± 1.2	2.22 ± 1.7
4.63 ± 3.3	5.36 ± 3.9	BIS	de Lorenzo et al. [22]	1.54 ± 1.1	2.39 ± 1.8
5.79 ± 4.3	11.13 ± 5.9	50 kHZ	Deurenberg et al. [18]	1.93 ± 1.4	5.00 ± 2.8
15.18 ± 6.4	5.88 ± 3.7	50 kHZ	Heitmann [19]	5.01 ± 2.0	2.69 ± 1.9
7.37 ± 4.9	8.39 ± 6.9	50 kHZ	Kushner and Schoeller [20]	2.36 ± 4.5	3.44 ± 2.7
5.76 ± 4.6	7.02 ± 5.3	50 kHZ	Sun et al. [21]	1.90 ± 1.5	3.06 ± 2.2