STANDARD BASAL METABOLISM CONSTANTS. 



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Table 102 gives the key number of the subjects, 28 their age, weight, 

 stature, and actually measured basal heat-production for 24-hour 

 periods. The fifth column gives the theoretical heat-production, the 

 sixth the absolute deviation of the measured from the calculated, and 

 the seventh the relative deviation of the actually determined from the 

 theoretical (normal) heat-production. 



TABLE 102. Metabolism of Joslin's series of diabetics in comparison with normal 



(multiple prediction) standard. 



With one single exception of 12 calories per 24 hours in the case of 

 subject D, the observed are all higher than the theoretical metabolism 

 constants. The excess ranges from 21 to 404 calories per 24 hours in 

 men and from 39 to 229 calories in women. In relation to the computed 

 heat-production taken as a standard, the excess in the men ranges from 

 1.4 to 28.7 per cent. In the women the range is from 3.4 to 19.8 per 

 cent. The average deviation of the 19 male determinations is 169.11 

 calories, while the average deviation of the 4 female determinations 

 is 132.50 calories. On the average the heat productions of the men are 

 11.55 per cent above normal, whereas those for the women are 10.78 

 per cent above normal. 



These results are fully confirmatory of the general conclusions 



28 Observations on the same patient at different ages or different body-weights are in some 

 cases available. These are recorded as 1 and 2. 



