Basal metabolic rate of Colombian children 2–16 y of age: ethnicity and nutritional status

• Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 56; no. 4; pp. 623 - 629
• Main Authors: Spurr, GB, Reina, JC, Hoffmann, RG
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Bethesda, MD Elsevier Inc 01.10.1992; American Society for Clinical Nutrition
• Subjects: Adolescent; adolescents; African Continental Ancestry Group; ALTURA; Basal metabolic rate; BASAL METABOLISM; Biological and medical sciences; Black People; Blacks; Body Composition; Body Height; BODY LEAN MASS; Body Mass Index; BODY MEASUREMENTS; BODY WEIGHT; boys; caucasians; Child; Child, Preschool; CHILDREN; COLOMBIA; COLOMBIE; Continental Population Groups; energy expenditure; ENFANT; ESTADO NUTRICIONAL; ETAT NUTRITIONNEL; ETHNIC GROUPS; ethnicity; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; GIRLS; GROUPE ETHNIQUE; GRUPOS ETNICOS; HAEMOGLOBIN; HAUTEUR; HEIGHT; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBINA; HEMOGLOBINE; Humans; INSTRUMENT DE MESURE; INSTRUMENTOS DE MEDICION; JEUNESSE; JUVENTUD; lean body mass; Male; MALNUTRICION; MALNUTRITION; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; Medical sciences; MEDICION DEL CUERPO; MENSURATION CORPORELLE; mestizo; Metabolic diseases; METABOLISME BASAL; METABOLISMO BASAL; nationalities and ethnic groups; NINOS; NUTRITIONAL STATE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; Other nutritional diseases (malnutrition, nutritional and vitamin deficiencies...); oxygen consumption; PESO; POIDS; PRESCHOOL CHILDREN; race; Racial Groups; Regression Analysis; SCHOOL CHILDREN; SKIN FOLD THICKNESS; skinfold thickness; UNDERNUTRITION; WEIGHT; White People; Whites; YOUTH; South America; Colombia; America; malnutrition; nutritional status; race; ethnicity; oxygen consumption; Basal metabolic rate; energy expenditure; Human; Basal metabolism; Malnutrition; Energetic cost; Child; Epidemiology
• ISSN: 0002-9165; 1938-3207
• DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/56.4.623

Measurements of basal metabolic rate (BMR) were made in 528 children 2–16 y of age living in underprivileged areas of the city of Cali, Colombia (153 control and 186 undernourished boys, 93 control and 96 undernourished girls). The data are related to BMR calculated from the equations of Schofield and to estimates of the lean body mass (LBM). The ethnic composition of the subjects was 80% mestizo (mixed European and South Amerindian ancestry), 15% black, and 5% white. The data do not show any variations due to race in these subjects. The Schofield equations overestimate the BMR of boys by ≈6% whereas the estimation of BMR in girls is not significantly different from measured values. More than 65% of the variation in BMR of both nutritionally normal and undernourished boys and girls is explained by variation in body size as estimated by the LBM.