Davies P S, Wells J C, Fieldhouse C A, Day J M, Lucas A
Infant and Child Nutrition Group, Dunn Nutrition Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Am J Clin Nutr. 1995 May;61(5):1026-9. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/61.4.1026.
It has been suggested that infants born to overweight parents are at risk of becoming overweight because of reduced total energy expenditure (TEE). We therefore examined the relationship between infant TEE and parental nutritional status as assessed by body mass index (BMI) in a large sample of healthy infants. TEE was measured by the doubly labeled water method in 124 infants at 12 wk of age. Sleeping metabolic rate (SMR) was measured by indirect calorimetry in 70 of these infants. Indexes of physical activity were calculated as TEE/SMR and TEE-SMR. No aspect of infant energy expenditure was found to be related to parental BMI. Moreover, there was no difference between TEE of two subsets of infants born to parents with high and low BMIs. We therefore find no evidence for parental body composition being associated with reduced infant energy expenditure at 12 wk of age.
有人认为，超重父母所生的婴儿由于总能量消耗（TEE）降低而有超重的风险。因此，我们在一大群健康婴儿中研究了婴儿TEE与通过体重指数（BMI）评估的父母营养状况之间的关系。采用双标水法测量了124名12周龄婴儿的TEE。其中70名婴儿通过间接量热法测量了睡眠代谢率（SMR）。身体活动指数计算为TEE/SMR和TEE-SMR。未发现婴儿能量消耗的任何方面与父母BMI相关。此外，父母BMI高和低的两组婴儿的TEE之间没有差异。因此，我们没有发现证据表明父母的身体组成与12周龄婴儿能量消耗降低有关。
