In this research article by Lee Graves and colleagues in the BMJ Christmas issue, the authors made an error in the SI units used (BMJ 2007;335:1282-4, 22 Dec, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39415.632951.80). In the results section of the abstract, in the figure, and in table 1, they mistakenly used kJ/kg/min, rather than J/kg/min.