The finding of our study (Szinnai et ah, 2005) cited by Jequier and Constant (2010) does not support their conclusion that: 'Severe dehydration therefore affects the function of many systems and is a life-threatening condition'. Instead we found that cognitive-motor function was preserved up to a dehydration level of 2.6% of body weight (BW). A number of other erroneous concepts are included in their article. We limit ourselves to the most important.
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