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water content due to the consumption of foods and liquids, menstruation, illness, exercise, and bathing.
Implausible results may occur among
• persons with fever, edema, or osteoporosis
• persons in dialysis treatment
• persons taking cardiovascular medicines
• pregnant women
• youth under the age of 16
• persons of the Asian and African population group.