The constancy of basal metabolic rate in free-living male subjects.
The object of this work was to investigate the constancy of basal metabolic rate (BMR) over time. The BMR was measured in a group of healthy free-living adult men on three separate occasions over some 2 years. Analysis of variance showed that the coefficient of variation within subjects was 4 per cent and between subjects 8 per cent. The results are compared with those of earlier workers, from Zuntz onwards, who made serial measurements of BMR on the same subjects.
Henry
C J
CJ
School of Biological and Molecular Sciences, Oxford Polytechnic, UK.
Hayter
J
J
Rees
D G
DG
D000328:Adult; D001481:Basal Metabolism; D004435:Eating; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male