Resting Energy Expenditure in the Elderly: Systematic Review and Comparison of Equations in an Experimental Population.

ABSTRACT: Elderly patients are at risk of malnutrition and need an appropriate assessment of energy requirements. Predictive equations are widely used to estimate resting energy expenditure (REE). In the study, we conducted a systematic review of REE predictive equations in the elderly population and compared them in an experimental population. Studies involving subjects older than 65 years of age that evaluated the performance of a predictive equation vs. a gold standard were included. The retrieved equations were then tested on a sample of 88 elderly subjects enrolled in an Italian nursing home to evaluate the agreement among the estimated REEs. The agreement was assessed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). A web application, equationer, was developed to calculate all the estimated

SUBMITTER: Ocagli H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7912404 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature