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Basal metabolic rate in healthy Down's syndrome adults
Author(s) -
SCHAPIRO M. B.,
RAPOPORT S. I.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of intellectual disability research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.941
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1365-2788
pISSN - 0964-2633
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1989.tb01468.x
Subject(s) - basal metabolic rate , basal (medicine) , trisomy , down syndrome , lean body mass , zoology , biology , metabolic rate , physiology , endocrinology , medicine , body weight , genetics , insulin
. Basal metabolic rale (BMR) was measured on 2 consecutive Jays with an open‐circuit, indirect calorimeter in 16 healthy subjects with trisomy 21 Down's syndrome (DS) aged 22‐35 years and 11 healthy control volunteers aged 20‐31 years. BMR measurements Jut mil differ on consecutive days in either the DS or control groups. Absolute BMR, BMR corrected for surface area, and HMR corrected tor lean body mass did not differ between the DS subjects and the volunteers. The per cent of predicted BMR also did not Jitter between the two groups. These results suggest that systems controlling basal metabolism are not affected by extra gcnomic material from chromosome 21.