Resting energy expenditure in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Am J Clin Nutr

Department of Pulmonary Diseases, University of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Published: December 1991

Resting energy expenditure (REE) was measured in 68 patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in 34 weight-stable, age-matched (65 +/- 8 y; means +/- SD) healthy control subjects. Fat-free mass (FFM) determined by bioelectrical resistance explained 84% of the variation in REE in the control group but only 34% in the COPD patients. REE could not reliably be predicted from regression equations either developed in healthy subjects or in COPD patients. REE adjusted for FFM was significantly higher (P less than 0.05) in weight-losing (n = 34) than in weight-stable (n = 34) patients (6851 +/- 781 and 6495 +/- 650 kJ/d, respectively). Pulmonary function was more compromised in weight-losing patients. Adjusted REE in weight-stable patients was significantly higher (P less than 0.01) than in the healthy control group (6131 +/- 405 kJ/d). In patients with COPD, factors in addition to FFM are important determinants of REE. A disease-related increase in REE develops, which may contribute to weight loss in COPD in combination with a lack of an adaptive response to undernutrition in weight-losing patients.

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