Body Composition by Bioimpedance in Transgender Women, Cali, Colombia.
Background: Nutritional classification based on body composition in transgender populations poses methodological challenges for health professionals, particularly when sex‐based reference criteria are applied. Providing care with a gender‐sensitive approach while acknowledging underlying physiologic...
| Publicado en: | BioMed Research International Vol. 2026; pp. 1 - 8 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
5/5/2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=193491107&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 193491107 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 23146133 FT2T jtl: BioMed Research International issn: 23146133 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 5/5/2026 vid: 2026 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 193491107 193491107 193491107 10.1155/bmri/8869056 193491107 ppf: 1 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Body Composition by Bioimpedance in Transgender Women, Cali, Colombia. aug: au: Valenzuela-Gallego, Ana Lucia Becerra-Granados, Luis Miguel Castillo-Albarracin, Adriana Nathaly Fernández-González, Alén Gurumallesh Prabu, Poorani affil: Department of Food and Nutrition,, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,, Cali, Valle del Cauca,, Colombia, javeriana.edu.co sug: subj: Body Composition Colombia Electric Impedance Trans Women Human Descriptive Research Cross Sectional Studies Exploratory Research Colombia Adult Middle Age Aged Anthropometry Body Weight Body Height Waist Circumference Body Mass Index Fat Free Mass Muscle, Skeletal Descriptive Statistics Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test Chi Square Test Fisher's Exact Test Funding Source Purposive Sample Data Analysis Software Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years ab: Background: Nutritional classification based on body composition in transgender populations poses methodological challenges for health professionals, particularly when sex‐based reference criteria are applied. Providing care with a gender‐sensitive approach while acknowledging underlying physiological differences remains a complex issue in clinical practice. Therefore, the study aimed to describe differences in body composition classification in transgender women according to the sex selected as reference for analysis. Methods: A descriptive, cross‐sectional, exploratory study was conducted using purposive sampling. Twenty‐five transgender women aged 23–66 years (mean age: 45.8 years), residents of Cali, Colombia, participated in 2022. Anthropometric measurements included weight, height, waist circumference, and body mass index (BMI). Body composition variables assessed by bioelectrical impedance analysis included lean mass, fat mass, skeletal muscle mass, total body water, visceral fat, bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA), and somatotype. Each participant was evaluated twice using sex‐specific reference criteria (sex assigned at birth and female sex). Statistical analyses included the Wilcoxon signed‐rank test, chi‐square test, and Fisher′s exact test, with a significance level of 5%. Results: When the same individuals were classified using male and female reference criteria, statistically significant differences were observed in the classification of skeletal muscle mass (p = 0.005), somatotype (p = 0.002), BIVA (p = 0.009), and waist circumference (p = 0.018). No significant differences were observed for BMI or other body composition components. Conclusions: The findings of this exploratory study highlight biomedical and methodological challenges in the interpretation of body composition in transgender women when sex‐based reference criteria are applied. The results underscore the need for cautious interpretation of anthropometric and bioimpedance outcomes and support the importance of further interdisciplinary research to inform the development of appropriate reference frameworks for the nutritional and clinical assessment of transgender populations. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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