Basal metabolism in women with obesity and anorexia nervosa
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Basal metabolism in women with obesity and anorexia nervosa.
The results of measurements of basal metabolic rate in patients with obesity and anorexia nervosa have suggested that the basal metabolic activity of cell mass is altered in these diseases. It has been shown repeatedly that basal metabolism, expressed as oxygen consumption per unit of time, is high in obesity and low in anorexia nervosa. When the oxygen consumption per unit of time is referred ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Nutrition
سال: 1961
ISSN: 0007-1145,1475-2662
DOI: 10.1079/bjn19610005