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Resting Energy Expenditure in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis
- Source :
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. 18:214-219
- Publication Year :
- 1994
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1994.
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Abstract
- To evaluate the contribution of energy expenditure to the energy imbalance seen in cystic fibrosis patients, resting energy expenditure was measured using open-circuit indirect calorimetry in eight infants with cystic fibrosis, aged 2-7 months (mean, 4), without overt lung disease and in 10 healthy age-matched controls. In both groups, we found close, significant, linear correlations between resting energy expenditure and body weight and between resting energy expenditure and fat-free mass as measured by anthropometry. Cystic fibrosis patients had a 26% increase in resting energy expenditure per kilogram of fat-free mass as compared with controls and a 32% increase in resting energy expenditure as compared with predicted values for fat-free mass. These data from young infants free of clinical symptoms suggest a constitutional metabolic disorder in cystic fibrosis and support the need for early nutritional therapy in cystic fibrosis patients.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cystic Fibrosis
Rest
Physiology
Cystic fibrosis
Eating
Internal medicine
Humans
Medicine
Resting energy expenditure
Medical nutrition therapy
Anthropometry
business.industry
Metabolic disorder
Respiratory disease
Infant, Newborn
Gastroenterology
Infant
medicine.disease
Endocrinology
El Niño
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Basal metabolic rate
Female
Basal Metabolism
Energy Metabolism
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 02772116
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....eeeb47dbfd4be9970f85493346fe869e