A comparison of COSMED metabolic systems for the determination of resting metabolic rate.

This study determined the reliability of measuring resting metabolic rate (RMR) with COSMED's FitMate™ metabolic system using a canopy dilution set-up compared with a previously validated COSMED QUARK CPET research-based system in 30 healthy adults (age: 28.4 ± 7.0 yrs, weight: 79.9 ± 20.2 kg, percent body fat: 22.5 ± 8.6%). The FitMate was developed as an inexpensive metabolic system for RMR and fitness testing. Subjects were randomly assigned to start testing on either the FitMate or Quark CPET for four 10-minute measurements. Test-retest intraclass correlations were 0.95-0.99, p ≤ 0.0001 for all parameters tested. Ve, RMR, VO2, and heart rate were not significantly different between the two systems. These results suggest that the FitMate is a reliable canopy dilution system for RMR measurements in healthy adults.

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