[Proportion of body constituents determined by 40K in healthy persons and in disease]

Relative characteristics of the body constituents have been worked out: BCM/SMM (the amount of body cell mass per unit of the skeleton mineral mass), ELV/BCM (extracellular liquid volume per unit of the body cell mass), TBF/BCM (the amount of total body fat per BCM unit). The proposed characteristics make it possible to compare persons of various constitution, to determine a degree of deviation from normal values and to assess general function of the human body.