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. 2024 Mar 19;119(5):1111–1121. doi: 10.1016/j.ajcnut.2024.02.005

TABLE 7.

Comparison of predicting total energy expenditure from age, weight, height, physical activity, and resting metabolic rate either measured or predicted from published equations

Prediction Males (n = 638)
Females (n = 1019)
Regression1
Regression1
TEE
rc Bias2
LOA3
Intercept
Slope
rs MAPE
TEE
rc Bias2
LOA3
Intercept
Slope
rs MAPE
kJ/d kJ/d kJ/d (%) kJ/d (%) kJ/d kJ/d kJ/d (%) kJ/d (%)
Reference value 10,192 ± 2081 8059 ± 1676
Measured RMR 10,128 ± 1963 0.94 −64 −1280 to 1406 (−12.9 to 13.4) 381 0.96 0.94 4.5 8058 ± 11573 0.94 −1 −1131 to 1132 (−14.7 to 13.8) 443 0.94 0.93 4.6
Livingston et al. [16] 10,235 ± 1896 0.86 43 −2091 to 2006 (−23.0 to 20.1) 921 0.92 0.86 5.8 7961 ± 1670 0.84 98 −1758 to 1954 (−22.9 to 24.2) 117 1.0 0.82 7.7
Porter et al. [18] 10,124 ± 1858 0.85 −68 −2067 to 2204 (−23.1 to 22.3) 913 0.90 0.84 6.4 8052 ± 1681 0.83 −7 −1887 to 1900 (−24.7 to 23.6) −78 1.01 0.81 8.2
Ikeda et al. [15] 9983 ± 1809 0.85 −209 −1874 to 2293 (−20.8 to 22.7) 1052 0.88 0.85 6.7 8120 ± 1631 0.83 61 −1927 to 1804 (−25.4 to 22.1) 263 0.98 0.81 8.0

LOA, limit of agreement; MAPE, median absolute percentage error; RMR, resting metabolic rate; TEE, total energy expenditure.

1

Regression, measured TEE versus predicted; rs, Spearman correlation coefficient; rc , Lin’s concordance correlation coefficient.

2

Measured − predicted; TEE = mean ± SD.

3

LOA = 1.96 SD limits of agreement.