A new study appears on the "Current Opinion on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care Journal" highlighting the importance of monitoring nutrition and metabolic status of ICU patients.
The purpose of this review is to highlight recent findings on metabolic monitoring and possible beneficial effects of an adequate nutrition therapy, based on indirect calorimetry as the golden standard to...
A study in the Journal of Medical Technology and Physical Therapy investigates the variability of Resting Energy Expenditure in hemodialysis patients.
Hemodialysis procedures of a long duration of 3–4 h may possibly affect resting energy expenditure (REE), leading to post-dialysis symptoms in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The purpose of this study was to continuously investigate (with indirect...
The role of predicitve equations versus indirect calorimetry in patients treated for bipolar disorder has been investigated in this study published on the Official Journal of the Italian Society of Psychopathology.
The purpose of this study was to compare predictive formulae (Harris-Benedict, Mifflin-St. Jeor and LARN) commonly used to calculate resting energy expenditure (REE) with the...
A new study published on the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society focuses on energy expenditure after spinal cord injury (SCI) and how commonly used predictive equations tend to overestimate resting metabolic rate (RMR) by 5–32 %.
The objective of this study was to measure RMR (m-RMR) with an indirect calorimeter (Quark RMR) and then compare the m-RMR with estimated RMR (e-RMR) using...
The importance of measuring and not estimating Resting Energy Expenditure has been confirmed also for critically ill cardiac patients in a pilot trial published on Heart Lung Vessel Journal.
The aim of present pilot trial was to evaluate the actual resting energy expenditures (REE) among haemodynamically compromised cardiac patients.
The study concludes that "indirect calorimetry is...
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