TY - JOUR
T1 - Validity and reliability of BodyGem for measuring resting metabolic rate on Taiwanese women
AU - Liou, Tsan Hon
AU - Chen, Ching-Min
AU - Chung, Wan Yu
AU - Chu, Nain Feng
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Resting metabolic rate (RMR) accounts for about two thirds of total energy expenditure. The widely used Harris-Benedict equations systematically overestimate RMR. This study assessed overall reliability and validity of a handheld indirect calorimeter, BodyGem, on a sample of women. Thirty healthy nurses participated in this study with an age of 41.9 ± 9.0 years old and a body mass index of 24.0 ± 2.8 kg/m 2. The Deltatrac Metabolic Monitor was used as the criterion method to validate BodyGem. Reliability was estimated by repeated measures of BodyGem to test internal consistency and stability. Analysis indicated that measurements of Deltatrac and BodyGem are well correlated (r = 0.76, P <0.001). The correlation coefficients of two BodyGem RMR measurements were of large statistical significance (r = 0.96, P
AB - Resting metabolic rate (RMR) accounts for about two thirds of total energy expenditure. The widely used Harris-Benedict equations systematically overestimate RMR. This study assessed overall reliability and validity of a handheld indirect calorimeter, BodyGem, on a sample of women. Thirty healthy nurses participated in this study with an age of 41.9 ± 9.0 years old and a body mass index of 24.0 ± 2.8 kg/m 2. The Deltatrac Metabolic Monitor was used as the criterion method to validate BodyGem. Reliability was estimated by repeated measures of BodyGem to test internal consistency and stability. Analysis indicated that measurements of Deltatrac and BodyGem are well correlated (r = 0.76, P <0.001). The correlation coefficients of two BodyGem RMR measurements were of large statistical significance (r = 0.96, P
KW - Harris-Benedict equations
KW - Indirect calorimeter
KW - Reliability
KW - Resting metabolic rate
KW - Taiwan
KW - Validity
KW - Women
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M3 - Article
C2 - 16837422
AN - SCOPUS:33748866287
SN - 0964-7058
VL - 15
SP - 317
EP - 322
JO - Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
JF - Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
IS - 3
ER -