Resting energy expenditure in cirrhotic patients with and without hepatocellular carcinoma

Table 7 Differences between resting energy expenditure calculated using predictive formulas in cirrhotics without hepatocellular carcinoma, compared with indirect calorimetry (n = 118)

	Mean difference	IC 95%	1P value
Calorimetry X Harris Benedict formula[21]	-611	-691 a -531	< 0.001
Calorimetry X Schofield formula[22]	-12.3	-67.2 a 42.6	0.658
Calorimetry X WHO formula[23]	-9.5	-73.1 a 54.2	0.768
Calorimetry X Mifflin-St Jeo formula[24]	87.2	49.5 a 125	< 0.001
Calorimetry X FAO/WHO formula[17]	-39.8	-93.2 a 13.6	0.142
Calorimetry x IOM formula[25]	-17.5	-41.5 a 6.6	0.153
Calorimetry x Cunningham formula[26]	-148	-172 a -123	< 0.001
Calorimetry x McArdle et al[27] formula	3.2	-20.9 a 27.3	0.792

¹Student t-test for paired samples.