McNeill G, Rivers J P, Payne P R, de Britto J J, Abel R
Department of Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
Hum Nutr Clin Nutr. 1987 Nov;41(6):473-83.
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) was measured in 58 men of a rural Indian population who had low body weight and body fat stores. Comparisons of subgroups of subjects of different socio-economic status and different nutritional status showed no evidence of differences in BMR when corrected for differences in body weight and body fat content. This suggests that metabolic adaptation did not account for differences in absolute BMR between subgroups of this population. The BMR values agreed well with values predicted by equations based on BMR measurements in Asian men of higher body weight, but were below values predicted by the new FAO/WHO/UNU prediction equations by an average of 12.1 per cent (P less than 0.0001). This overprediction could be a reflection of allometric or climatic influences on BMR rather than evidence for metabolic adaptation to a low plane of energy nutrition.
对58名体重和体脂储存量较低的印度农村男性进行了基础代谢率（BMR）测量。对不同社会经济地位和不同营养状况的受试者亚组进行比较，结果显示，在校正体重和体脂含量差异后，BMR没有差异。这表明，代谢适应性并不能解释该人群亚组之间绝对BMR的差异。BMR值与基于较高体重亚洲男性BMR测量值的方程预测值非常吻合，但比新的粮农组织/世界卫生组织/联合国大学预测方程预测的值平均低12.1%（P<0.0001）。这种预测过高可能反映了异速生长或气候对BMR的影响，而不是代谢适应低能量营养水平的证据。
