Friday, 24 February 2012

Metabolic equivalent of task

The Compendium of Concrete Activities was developed for use in epidemiologic studies to assimilate the appointment of metabolic agnate of assignment (MET) intensities in concrete action questionnaires. The Compendium is account of

concrete activities and the associated action amount of anniversary activity. The aboriginal Compendium was appear in 1993, the aboriginal amend in 2000, and the best contempo amend in 2011.12



MET (Metabolic Equivalent): The arrangement of the assignment metabolic amount to the comatose metabolic rate. One MET is authentic as 1 kcal/kg/hour and is almost agnate to the action amount of sitting quietly. A MET additionally is authentic as oxygen uptake in ml/kg/min with one MET according to the oxygen amount of sitting quietly, agnate to 3.5 ml/kg/min.

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