| A comment on the practice of expressing food and water intake as a proportion of body weight. | |
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MedLine Citation:
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PMID: 7079316 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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It has been a common practice to express food and water intake as a proportion of body weight in an attempt to control for weight differences between individuals or treatment groups. It is argued here that, unless extreme caution is taken, this procedure is likely to result in misleading conclusions. Intake per kilogram body weight is not simply a measure of intake and it should not be treated as though it were. Furthermore, use of this technique to measure ingestion is more likely to introduce spurious relations between consumption and body weight than it is to eliminate relations which are actually present. We feel, therefore, that this measure should, at most, be used as a supplement to raw measures of food and water intake. |
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Authors:
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D Wirtshafter; K E Asin |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Physiology & behavior Volume: 28 ISSN: 0031-9384 ISO Abbreviation: Physiol. Behav. Publication Date: 1982 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 1982-07-22 Completed Date: 1982-07-22 Revised Date: 2007-11-14 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0151504 Medline TA: Physiol Behav Country: UNITED STATES |
Other Details:
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Languages: eng Pagination: 183-5 Citation Subset: IM |
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| MeSH Terms | |
Descriptor/Qualifier:
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Aging Animals Body Weight* Drinking* Eating* Energy Metabolism Hypothalamus / physiology Neurophysiology / methods* Rats |
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ID/Acronym/Agency:
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1F32NS06399-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS |
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