Table 4.
The percentage of accurate, underestimated and overestimated BMR predictions for all subjects and subcategorized for a BMI smaller and greater than 23, BMR prediction equations are ranked according to overall accuracy for the cross-sectional study (n = 232) and underestimated and overestimated BMR predictions for all subjects of the cross-validation study (n = 70)
| Cross-sectional study | Cross-validation study | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| underestimation | accurate within ± 10 % | overestimation | under | accurate | over | |||||||
| All | ≤23 | >23 | All | ≤23 | >23 | All | ≤23 | >23 | All | All | All | |
| Singapore | 9 % | 6 % | 11 % | 78 % | 80 % | 76 % | 13 % | 14 % | 13 % | 4 % | 80 % | 16 % |
| Owen [31, 32] | 14 % | 2 % | 20 % | 70 % | 74 % | 68 % | 16 % | 24 % | 12 % | 9 % | 70 % | 21 % |
| Henry [8] | 9 % | 2 % | 13 % | 67 % | 59 % | 72 % | 24 % | 39 % | 16 % | 2 % | 59 % | 41 % |
| Mifflin [30] | 9 % | 1 % | 13 % | 67 % | 61 % | 70 % | 24 % | 38 % | 16 % | 1 % | 59 % | 41 % |
| Liu [26] | 3 % | 0 % | 5 % | 58 % | 63 % | 56 % | 38 % | 37 % | 39 % | 0 % | 49 % | 51 % |
| HB [11] | 4 % | 1 % | 6 % | 45 % | 33 % | 52 % | 50 % | 66 % | 42 % | 0 % | 37 % | 63 % |
| Yang [25] | 2 % | 4 % | 1 % | 37 % | 69 % | 20 % | 61 % | 27 % | 79 % | 4 % | 44 % | 56 % |
BMR basal metabolic rate, BMI body mass index (kg/m2), HB Harris and Benedict