Open AccessEvaluation of formulas for calculating total energy requirements of preadolescent children with cystic fibrosis
Author(s) -
Jillian Trabulsi,
Richard F. Ittenbach,
Joan I. Schall,
Irene E. Olsen,
Marc Yudkoff,
Yevgeny Daikhin,
Babette S. Zemel,
Virginia A. Stallings
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/85.1.144
Subject(s) - energy requirement , cystic fibrosis , malnutrition , mathematics , statistics , medicine , doubly labeled water , malnutrition in children , regression analysis , pediatrics , energy expenditure , regression
To support age-appropriate growth and to prevent and treat malnutrition in children with cystic fibrosis (CF), energy requirements for those children are often set above the requirements for healthy children. Care providers use one of several empirically derived formulas to calculate energy requirements, yet the validity of these formulas has seldom been tested.
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