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Body Surface Area - Du Bois

Description

In physiology and medicine, the body surface area (BSA) is the measured or calculated surface area of a human body.

Various calculations have been published to arrive at the BSA without direct measurement.The most widely used is the Du Bois formula shown here.

Related formulas

Variables

BSAbody surface area(m^2) (dimensionless)
Wweight(kg) (dimensionless)
Hheight(cm) (dimensionless)