The Effects of Compliance with Nutritional Counselling on Body Composition Parameters in Head and Neck Cancer Patients under Radiotherapy

Table 3

Anthropometric and body composition parameters with respect to compliance.

	Compliant patients ()				Noncompliant patients ()
	Baseline	Middle of treatment	End of treatment		Baseline	Middle of treatment	End of treatment
BMI (kg/m^2)								<0.001
Weight								<0.001
% fat								<0.001
FM (kg)								<0.001
FFM (kg)								<0.001
Muscle mass (kg)								<0.001

48 patients with three BIA measurements and a food recall were evaluated; Friedman repeated measures; FM: fat mass; FFM: fat free mass
() when compared to baseline values.