American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 37, 461-467, Copyright © 1983 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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A method to assess energy expenditure in children and adults

C Bouchard, A Tremblay, C Leblanc, G Lortie, R Savard and G Theriault

A variety of studies has a need to estimate the amount and pattern of daily energy expenditure. To this end, a 3-day activity record was developed and is described. Every 15-min period over 3 days, including a weekend day, was qualified in terms of energy cost on a 1 to 9 scale corresponding to a range of 1.0 MET to 7.8 METs and higher. A reliability study of 61 subjects indicated a highly reproducible procedure as shown by an intraclass correlation of 0.96 for mean kcal of energy expenditure over 3 days. Repeatability was unchanged whether or not the hours of sleep were included in the record. Samples of 150 children and 150 adults were also drawn to investigate the relationship between energy expenditure, physical working capacity, and body fatness. Results support the hypothesis that mean energy expenditure per kg of body weight is significantly correlated with physical working capacity expressed per kg of body weight (r = 0.31; p less than 0.01). Mean energy expenditure per kg of body weight is negatively related to body fat (-0.08 less than or equal to r less than or equal to -0.13). It is concluded that the 3-day activity record is a procedure suitable to estimate energy expenditure in population studies.

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