SynthesisNutrients2021
Resting Energy Expenditure in the Elderly: Systematic Review and Comparison of Equations in an Experimental Population.
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- Reply to Carrera-Gil et al. Comment on "Sum of Skinfold-Corrected Girths Correlates with Resting Energy Expenditure: Development of the NRGNutrients · 2025Article
- Resting Energy Expenditure in Patients with Extreme Obesity: Comparison of the Harris-Benedict Equation with Indirect Calorimetry.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Sum of Skinfold-Corrected Girths Correlates with Resting Energy Expenditure: Development of the NRGNutrients · 2024Article
- [Characteristics of resting energy expenditure and evaluation of prediction formulas in young men with different body mass indexes].Beijing da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Peking University. Health sciences · 2024Article
- Dietary Adequacy in Older Adult Nursing Home Residents of the Northern Iberian Peninsula.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The effect of intermittent fasting on preventing obesity-related early aging from a molecular and cellular perspective.Journal of medicine and life · 2024Review
- Development and validation of new predictive equations for the resting metabolic rate of older adults aged ≥65 y.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- Resting Energy Expenditure in Older Inpatients: A Comparison of Prediction Equations and Measurements.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Lymphaticovenous Anastomosis for Treating Secondary Lower Limb Lymphedema in Older Patients-A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Determinants of Resting Energy Expenditure in Very Old Nursing Home Residents.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2022Article
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Abstract
Elderly patients are at risk of malnutrition and need an appropriate assessment of energy requirements. Predictive equations are widely used to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE). In the study, we conducted a systematic review of REE predictive equations in the elderly population and compared them in an experimental population. Studies involving subjects older than 65 years of age that evaluated the performance of a predictive equation vs. a gold standard were included. The retrieved equations were then tested on a sample of 88 elderly subjects enrolled in an Italian nursing home to evaluate the agreement among the estimated REEs. The agreement was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). A web application, equationer, was developed to calculate all the estimated REEs according to the available variables. The review identified 68 studies (210 different equations). The agreement among the equations in our sample was higher for equations with fewer parameters, especially those that included body weight, ICC = 0.75 (95% CI = 0.69-0.81). There is great heterogeneity among REE estimates. Such differences should be considered and evaluated when estimates are applied to particularly fragile populations since the results have the potential to impact the patient's overall clinical outcome.
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