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Do Hand-Held Calorimeters Provide Reliable and Accurate Estimates of Resting Metabolic Rate?

Marta D. Van Loan USDA, ARS, Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Davis, CaliforniaCorrespondence[email protected]
, PhD, FACSM
Pages 625-629 | Received 05 Sep 2006, Accepted 27 Sep 2006, Published online: 14 Jun 2013

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