Resting energy expenditure in infants with cystic fibrosis.

J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr

Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Armand-Trousseau Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Paris, France.

Published: February 1994

To evaluate the contribution of energy expenditure to the energy imbalance seen in cystic fibrosis patients, resting energy expenditure was measured using open-circuit indirect calorimetry in eight infants with cystic fibrosis, aged 2-7 months (mean, 4), without overt lung disease and in 10 healthy age-matched controls. In both groups, we found close, significant, linear correlations between resting energy expenditure and body weight and between resting energy expenditure and fat-free mass as measured by anthropometry. Cystic fibrosis patients had a 26% increase in resting energy expenditure per kilogram of fat-free mass as compared with controls and a 32% increase in resting energy expenditure as compared with predicted values for fat-free mass. These data from young infants free of clinical symptoms suggest a constitutional metabolic disorder in cystic fibrosis and support the need for early nutritional therapy in cystic fibrosis patients.

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