Predicting the resting metabolic rate of 30–60-year-old australian males

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: This study: (a) generated regression equations for predicting the resting metabolic rate (RMR) of 30–60-y-old Australian males from age, height, mass and fat-free mass

(FFM); and (b) cross-validated RMR prediction equations which are currently used in Australia against our measured and predicted values. DESIGN: A power analysis demonstrated that 41

subjects would enable the detection of (α=0.05, power=0.80) statistically and physiologically significant differences of 8% between predicted/measured RMRs in this study and those predicted

from the equations of other investigators. SUBJECTS: Forty-one males (X̄±s.d.:, 44.8±8.6 y; 83.50±11.32 kg; 179.1±5.0 cm) were recruited for this study. INTERVENTIONS: The following

variables were measured: skinfold thicknesses; RMR using open circuit indirect calorimetry; and FFM via a four-compartment (fat mass, total body water, bone mineral mass and residual) body

composition model. RESULTS: A multiple regression equation using mass, height and age as predictors correlated 0.745 with RMR and the s.e.e. was 509 kJ/day. Inclusion of FFM as a predictor

increased both the correlation and the precision of prediction, but there was no difference between FFM via the four-compartment model (_r_=0.816, s.e.e.=429 kJ/day) and that predicted from

skinfold thicknesses (_r=_0.805, s.e.e.=441 kJ/day). CONCLUSIONS: Cross-validation analyses emphasised that equations need to be generated from a large database for the prediction of the RMR

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