title: Functional assessment of nutritional status: heart rate response to submaximal work.
abstract: The heart rate response to submaximal treadmill work been calculated using the heart rates and oxygen intakes obtained from normally nourished and undernourished adult male subjects during a maximal oxygen consumption test. Increased severity of malnutrition was associated with an increased heart rate response to the same submaximal work loads. The response was observed to decrease during a period of high protein dietary repletion of the most severely malnourished subjects. The data suggest the possibility of developing a submaximal work test for use in the field to provide physiological data to supplement anthropometric and biochemical information used to assess the nutritional status of populations.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010100:Oxygen; D005082:Physical Exertion; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests
chemical_list: D004044:Dietary Proteins; D010100:Oxygen