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Total-Body Potassium and Lean Body Mass in Males with an Abnormal Sex Chromosome Complement

Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland
Western General Hospital and Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Keith Boddy, Scottish University Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Scotland.

ABSTRACT

Total-body potassium and lean-body mass were estimated in 21 male patients at a state mental hospital. Seven of these had an abnormal sex chromosome complement: XXY in three, XYY in two, and XXYY in two. The remainder had a normal chromosome analysis. In the group of patients with chromosome abnormalities considered as a whole, the total-body potassium and the lean-body mass were significantly less than in the "normal" males and they were not significantly different from the corresponding values for healthy females. Within the group, abnormally low levels of total-body potassium and significantly reduced values for lean-body mass occurred amongst the 47,XXY and the 48,XXYY males. For both 47,XYY males, the values were not significantly different from the predicted normal values for men.