... metabolism, and heart rate in otherwise healthy preterm infants. Patients and Methods: We measured oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory quotient (RQ) and energy expenditure (EE) by 4-hour indirect calorimetry, and assessed weight gain over 7 days and heart rate in 12 infants with late anemia of prematurity...

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...E. Jéquier After ingestion or intravenous infusion of a nutrient, the energy expenditure increases. This nutrient-induced thermogenesis represents 6 to 8% of the energy infused when glucose is infused with insulin (glucose clamp technique) to healthy subjects. At physiological plasma insulin levels...