Validity of Predictive Equations for the Caculation of Basal Metabolic Rate in Healthy Chinese Adults

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Title:	Validity of Predictive Equations for the Caculation of Basal Metabolic Rate in Healthy Chinese Adults 以現有公式估算中國人基礎代謝率之探討
Authors:	劉秀英;盧義發;陳維昭 LIU, HSIU-YING;LU, YI-FA;CHEN, WEI-JAO
Contributors:	營養部
Date:	1994
Issue Date:	2009-10-21 18:37:46 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity of predictive equations for the calculation of basal metabolec rate (BMR) in healthy Chinese adults. Two hundred and twenty three healty individuals (102 males and 121 females from 20 to 78 years old) were included in this study . The measured metabolic rate and predicted metabolic rate calculated from five equations (including Harris and Benedict Equation, HBE) commonly used to estimate metabolec rate were compared. Our results showed that these equations overestimated BMR by 8 to 24% for healthy Chinese. The measured values were overpredicted by 8 to 21% for men and by 8 to 31% for women. Although there significant correlations between measured and predicted BMR with using the HBE (men, r=0.80, p=0.0001; women, r=0.53, p=0.0001), the HBE overestimated BMR by 8±8% for men and by 19±11% for women if compared with measured BMR. These findings suggested that the currently available predictive equadtions could not accurately estimate the BMR of healthy Chinese adults.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF THE CHINESE NUTRITION SOCIETY v.19 n.2 pp.141-150
Appears in Collections:	[附設醫院營養部] 期刊論文

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