The Nutrition in Clinical Practice Journal published an interesting article on the optimum abbreviated period for measurement of indirect calorimetry. This study aimed to determine the acclimation time required to achieve the REE steady state during a 30-minute IC measurement and to define the optimum abbreviated measurement period in the steady state to estimate the REE in healthy young adults. The...

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 predict...

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 indirect...