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Table 1 Anthropometric, growth performance and metabolic data (Mean ± SD) for the healthy reference infants [6]

From: Twenty-four hour metabolic rate measurements utilized as a reference to evaluate several prediction equations for calculating energy requirements in healthy infants

Parameter

N = 10

Males/Females

7/3

Age (months)

5.0 ± 0.8

Length (cm)

68.8 ± 2.8

BMI (kg/m2)

15.5 ± 1.5

Length-for-age percentile

81.5 ± 14.3

Weight-for-age percentile

65.0 ± 21.0

Weight-for-length percentile

27.5 ± 23.1

24-h Energy expenditure (kcal/kg/d)

78.7 ± 8.4

Resting metabolic rate (kcal/kg/d)

66.0 ± 3.5

Sleeping metabolic rate (kcal/kg/d)

65.0 ± 3.4

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Nutrition Journal

ISSN: 1475-2891

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