Hydration Status Monitoring

Abstract

This paper reviews widely used indices of hydration status in humans. For the purposes of this review, euhydration will refer to "normal" total body water (TBW), whereas hypohydration will refer to a body water deficit. The term dehydration will be used to refer to the dynamic process of body water loss(i.e., the transaction from euhydration to hypohydration). Greenleaf and Sargent, 1965; Sawka, 1992). The term hypovolemia will define when blood volume is less than "normal". Both physical and cognitive performance are impaired proportionally to the magnitude of-body water loss incurred (Gopinathan et al, 1988;Sawka, 1988). However, even small losses of body water (1-2 percent body mass (BM) have a detrimental impact on physical work and negatively impact human thermoregulation,

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA457901

Entities

People

  • M. A. Kolka
  • M. N. Swaka
  • R. Carter
  • S. N. Cheuvront

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Blood Volume
  • Body Water
  • Dehydration
  • Hydration
  • Hypovolemia
  • Memory Devices
  • Monitoring
  • Pathologic Processes
  • Symptoms And General Pathology
  • Temperature Control
  • Volume

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