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Table 4 Twenty-four hour metabolic rate and physical activity of infants born to normal weight and obese biological mothers

From: Relationship between maternal obesity and infant feeding-interactions

Parameters for infants

Biological Mothers

 

Normal weight

Obese

24-hr EE (kcal/kg body weight)1

76.0 ± 5.2

74.3 ± 4.3

RMR (kcal/kg body weight)2

65.0 ± 5.0

64.9 ± 3.4

SMR (kcal/kg body weight)3

63.0 ± 4.3

64.6 ± 4.1

24-hr PA (oscillations/min/kg body weight)4

2.9 ± 0.4

5.0 ± 2.4

RQ (VCO2/VO2)5

0.84 ± 0.03

0.89 ± 0.02

  1. 1 24-hr EE = Twenty four hour energy expenditure expressed per kg body weight
  2. 2 RMR = 24-hour resting metabolic rate expressed per kg body weight
  3. 3 SMR = 24-hour sleeping metabolic rate expressed per kg body weight
  4. 4 PA = physical activity as determined by the amount of oscillations in weight (g) derived from the balance within the EMTAC enclosure. Data includes periods of sleep
  5. 5 RQ = Respiratory quotient determined as the rate of carbon dioxide production/oxygen consumption in liters
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Nutrition Journal

ISSN: 1475-2891

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