[Measurement of energy expenditure of children in habitual living conditions].
New techniques for the measurement of energy expenditure of children have been developed in recent years, which can be applied in free-living conditions: heart rate monitoring, double labelled water method, accelerometry. This paper presents the principles, advantages and disadvantages of these techniques.
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Unité d'hépatologie, gastroentérologie et nutrition, hôpital Jeanne-de-Flandre, Lille, France.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002648:Child; D003903:Deuterium; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014867:Water
D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D014867:Water; D003903:Deuterium