Estimation of Body Water Compartments of Preschool Children
Open Access
- 1 October 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 20 (10) , 1125-1128
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/20.10.1125
Abstract
Measurement of TBW and ECW in 20 children aged 1–6 years reveals that TBW was relatively constant at about 59% of body weight after 1 year of age. Extracellular water, however, did not stabilize to young adult levels of 26–27% of body weight until the 2nd and 3rd years. Intracellular water also took longer to stabilize, plateauing at 32% of body weight by 3 years of age.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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