Assessment of resting energy expenditure in patients with cirrhosis
Shaiane Ferreira, Cláudio Augusto Marroni, Jessica Taina Stein, Roberta Rayn, Ana Cristhina Henz, Natália P Schmidt, Randhall B Carteri, Sabrina Alves Fernandes
Shaiane Ferreira, Cláudio Augusto Marroni, Jessica Taina Stein, Roberta Rayn, Ana Cristhina Henz, Natália P Schmidt, Sabrina Alves Fernandes, Postgraduate Program in Hepatology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre 90050-170, Brazil
Randhall B Carteri, Department of Nutrition, Centro Universitário Metodista - IPA, Porto Alegre 90420-060, Brazil
Randhall B Carteri, Department of Health and Behavior, Catholic University of Pelotas, Pelotas 96015-560, Brazil
Author contributions: Ferreira S contributed to the conception and design of the study, data collection, statistical analysis and writing of the manuscript; Marroni CA contributed to the conception and design of the study and writing of the manuscript; Stein JT, Henz AC and Rayn RG collected the data; Schmidt NP contributed to the conception and design of the study, data collection; Carteri RB statistical analysis and manuscript writing; Fernandes SA manuscript writing and critical review.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of Irmandade Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre (No. 2.387.800).
Informed consent statement: Patients who agreed to participate in the study signed the Free and Informed Consent Form.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest related to this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data is available for sharing.
STROBE statement: The authors have read the STROBE Statement—checklist of items, and the manuscript was prepared and revised according to the STROBE Statement—checklist of items.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Sabrina Alves Fernandes, PhD, Postdoc, Research Scientist, Postgraduate Program in Hepatology, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Rua Professor Duplan, 72 apto 01, Porto Alegre 90420-030, Brazil. sabrinaafernandes@gmail.com
Received: December 1, 2021
Peer-review started: December 1, 2021
First decision: January 12, 2022
Revised: January 13, 2022
Accepted: March 26, 2022
Article in press: March 26, 2022
Published online: April 27, 2022
