Table 1.

Estimation of organ weights

	msBMRk(r)	W 0 k(r)	Wk(r)	W 0 k(s3)	Wk(s3)	W 0 k(s4)	Wk(s4)
Skeletal muscle	13.0	28.0	27.46	39.03	26.39	24.01	22.10
Liver	200.0	1.8	1.78	2.25	1.71	1.51	1.43
Brain	240.0	1.4	1.38	1.77	1.33	1.18	1.11
Heart	440.0	0.33	0.32	0.53	0.31	0.29	0.26
Kidneys	440.0	0.31	0.30	0.51	0.29	0.28	0.24
Adipose tissue	5.0	15.0	13.18	55.47	12.67	17.08	10.61
Residual	4.5	23.16	22.57	35.55	21.69	20.26	18.16
Total		70.0	67.0	135.10	64.38	64.60	53.92
Height		175.6		170.0		157.7

msBMR_k(r) (kcal day⁻¹ kg⁻¹) and W _{0 k}(kg), respectively, denote the original mass‐specific basal metabolic rate and body weight data of each organ in the 70‐kg reference male (Elia, 1992; Snyder et al., 1975). The renormalization procedure estimated the height H(r) = 175.6 (cm), the age T(r) = 32 (years), and the organ weights W _k(r) of this male and also estimated the W _0k (i) and W _k (i) values of all other American samples. The results for 2 samples {s3 with T = 50 (years) and s4 with 80 (years)} are listed in this table. The renormalized organ weights W _k (i) little depended on the body weights W ₀ (i), different from the original ones, W _0k (see Section 2.4 for details).