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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1998
Filed:
May. 16, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen M Arpadi, New York, NY (US);
Mary Horlick, New York, NY (US);
Donald P Kotler, New Rochelle, NY (US);
Richard N Pierson, Englewood, NJ (US);
John Thornton, Mahopac, NY (US);
Jack Wang, Edgewater, NJ (US);
Assignee:
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
600547 ; 600587 ; 73433 ;
Abstract
A method for predicting fat free mass (FFM) and total body water (TBW) of a prepubertal child infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) comprises the steps of measuring a child's height, measuring the child's total body resistance, and predicting fat free mass (FFM) and total body weight (TBW) of said child using the measured height and total body resistance.