Estimating changes in free-living energy intake and its confidence interval
Estimating changes in free-living energy intake and its confidence interval
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DOI:
10.3945/ajcn.111.014399
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发表时间:
2011-07-01
影响因子:
7.1
通讯作者:
Chow, Carson C.
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作者:
Hall, Kevin D.;Chow, Carson C.
Background: Free-living energy intake in humans is notoriously difficult to measure but is required to properly assess outpatient weight-control interventions.Objective: Our objective was to develop a simple methodology that uses longitudinal body weight measurements to estimate changes in energy intake and its 95% CI in individual subjects.Design: We showed how an energy balance equation with 2 parameters can be derived from any mathematical model of human metabolism. We solved the energy balance equation for changes in free-living energy intake as a function of body weight and its rate of change. We tested the predicted changes in energy intake by using weight-loss data from controlled inpatient feeding studies as well as simulated free-living data from a group of "virtual study subjects" that included realistic fluctuations in body water and day-to-day variations in energy intake.Results: Our method accurately predicted individual energy intake changes with the use of weight-loss data from controlled inpatient feeding experiments. By applying the method to our simulated free-living virtual study subjects, we showed that daily weight measurements over periods >28 d were required to obtain accurate estimates of energy intake change with a 95% CI of