ReviewEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2017
Indirect calorimetry: an indispensable tool to understand and predict obesity.
Review in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03638895 (Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate Impact of Energy Expenditure Information on the Outcome of Weight Loss During a Standardised Multicomponent Weight Management Intervention), which is not on this map. Cited by 56 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Randomised Controlled Trial to Evaluate Impact of Energy Expenditure Information on the Outcome of Weight Loss During a Standardised Multicomponent Weight Management Intervention
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56 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Validity and Reliability of Resting Energy Expenditure Measured by Indirect Calorimetry in Adults with Overweight and Obesity: a Rapid Systematic Review.Obesity surgery · 2025Pooled it
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- Inter-Day Reliability of Resting Metabolic Rate and Maximal Fat Oxidation during Exercise in Healthy Men Using the Ergostik Gas Analyzer.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Impaired Metabolic Flexibility to High-Fat Overfeeding Predicts Future Weight Gain in Healthy Adults.Diabetes · 2020Trial
- Association of basal metabolic rate with mortality among cancer survivors: a cohort study emphasizing heterogeneity by gender and age.Annals of medicine · 2026Article
- Women exhibit different thermoregulatory responses to meal and cold stimuli compared to men independently of energy expenditure and body composition.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- The epigenetic role of ADRB3 DNA methylation in post-bariatric energy expenditure for women with obesity: a longitudinal observational study.Scientific reports · 2026Observational
- Using Metabolic Testing to Personalize Behavioral Obesity Treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- The Influence of Lifestyle Factors on Resting Energy Expenditure and Its Role in Cardiometabolic Risk: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Development of New Equation for Predicting State of Normometabolism from Cohort of Hospitalized Patients with Obesity.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Resting Energy Expenditure Equations Have Lower Accuracy for Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity Versus Healthy-Weight Adolescents.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2025Article
- Exhaled Breath Analysis: From Laboratory Test to Wearable Sensing.IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering · 2025Review
- Resting Energy Expenditure in Patients with Extreme Obesity: Comparison of the Harris-Benedict Equation with Indirect Calorimetry.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Prediction of resting energy expenditure for adolescents with severe obesity: A multi-centre analysis.Pediatric obesity · 2024Article
- Intra-Assessment Resting Metabolic Rate Variability Is Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Middle-Aged Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Measured vs estimated resting energy expenditure in children and adolescents with obesity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Resting Metabolic Rate of Individuals.Metabolites · 2023Article
- Energy Guidance Using Indirect Calorimetry for Intestinal Failure Patients with Home Parenteral Nutrition: The Right Bag Right at the Start.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Effect of gas exchange data selection methods on resting metabolic rate estimation in young athletes.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Obesity is a physiological condition of chronic positive energy balance. While the regulation of energy metabolism varies widely among individuals, identifying those who are metabolically prone to weight gain and intervening accordingly is a key challenge for reversing the course of the obesity epidemic. Indirect calorimetry is the most commonly used method to measure energy expenditure in the research setting. By measuring oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production, indirect calorimetry provides minute-by-minute energy expenditure data that makes it the most valuable tool to distinguish the various components of energy expenditure, that is, sleeping and resting metabolic rate, thermic effect of food and the energy cost of activity. Importantly, such measures also provide information on energy substrate utilization. Here we summarized some of the research that revealed resting metabolic rate, spontaneous physical activity and respiratory quotient as key metabolic predictors of weight gain and obesity. Recent studies using indirect calorimetry in response to mid-term fasting or overfeeding have identified 'thrifty' and 'spendthrift' phenotypes in people who differ in propensity to weight gain. We propose the use of indirect calorimetry data as a basis for personalized interventions that may be efficacious in slowing down the rise of global obesity.
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