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Lean Body Mass
Aka: Lean Body Mass, Lean Body Weight
- See Also
- Ideal Weight
- Weight Measurement in Children
- Body Mass Index
- Definitions
- Lean Body Mass
- Total body weight minus body fat
- Indications
- Medication dose calculations
- Total Sodium Deficit (Hyponatremia)
- Calculation: Male
- Lean Body Mass (Boer formula, 1984)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (0.407 * wtKg) + (0.267 * htCm) - 19.2
- Lean Body Mass (Hume formula, 1966)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (0.32810 * wtKg) + (0.33929 * htCm) - 29.5336
- Lean Body Mass (James formula, least accurate but commonly used)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (1.1 * wtKg) - 128 * (wtKg/htCm)^2
- Calculation: Female
- Lean Body Mass (Boer formula)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (0.252 * wtKg) + (0.473 * htCm) - 48.3
- Lean Body Mass (Hume formula, 1966)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (0.29569 * wtKg) + (0.41813 * htCm) - 43.2933
- Lean Body Mass (James formula, least accurate but commonly used)
- Lean Body Mass (kg) = (1.07 * wtKg) - 148 * (wtKg/htCm)^2
- Resources
- Fpnotebook Lean Body Mass Calculation
- Calculator.Net Lean Body Mass
- http://www.calculator.net/lean-body-mass-calculator.html
- Halls-MD Lean Body Mass
- http://halls.md/lean-body-weight-mass-explained/
- Richard Muirhead: Exploration of James Lean Body Mass - Time to Consider Others
- http://muirheads.co.uk/richard/RM_poster.pdf
- References
- Boer (1984) Am J Physiol 247: F632-5 [PubMed]
- Hume (1966) J Clin Pathol 19(4):389-91. [PubMed]