Patent ID: 7136697

Claim:
A method for determining illness of a biological entity, progression to non-acute death of said biological entity, or timing of non-acute death of said biological entity, comprising the steps of: providing normal values of resistance, reactance, phase angle, extracellular water volume, intracellular water volume, and membrane status of whole body and regions of said biological entity; measuring initial values of resistance, reactance, phase angle, extracellular water volume, intracellular water volume, and membrane status of whole body and regions of said biological entity; taking whole body and regional measurements of resistance, reactance, phase angle, extracellular water volume, intracellular water volume, and membrane status at predetermined intervals of time; recording said whole body and regional measurements; comparing initial values of said whole body or regional measurements to said normal values of said whole body or regional measurements, respectively, and to serially measured values of said whole body or regional measurements, respectively; and determining from said comparison steps hallmarks of said illness of said biological entity, said progression to said non-acute death of said biological entity, or said timing of non-acute death of said biological entity.