Journal
BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
Volume 125, Issue 9, Pages 983-997Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114520003049
Keywords
Physical activity; Total energy expenditure; Activity energy expenditure; Doubly labelled water method
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- Tehran University of Medical Science
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The study evaluated various physical activity questionnaires for estimating physical activity and energy expenditure, and found that only Active-Q and 3-day PA diaries were identified as valid tools for estimating total energy expenditure.
Physical activity questionnaires (PAQ) could be suitable tools in free-living people for measures of physical activity, total and activity energy expenditure (TEE and AEE). This meta-analysis was performed to determine valid PAQ for estimating TEE and AEE using doubly labelled water (DLW). We identified data from relevant studies by searching Google Scholar, PubMed and Scopus databases. This revealed thirty-eight studies that had validated PAQ with DLW and reported the mean differences between PAQ and DLW measures of TEE (TEEDLW - TEEPAQ) and AEE (AEE(DLW) - AEE(PAQ)). We assessed seventy-eight PAQ consisting of fifty-nine PAQ that assessed TEE and thirty-five PAQ that examined AEE. There was no significant difference between TEEPAQ and TEEDLW with a weighted mean difference of -243.3 and a range of -841.4 to 354.6 kJ/d, and a significant weighted mean difference of AEE(DLW) - AEE (PAQ) 414.6 and a range of 78.7-750.5. To determine whether any PAQ was a valid tool for estimating TEE and AEE, we carried out a subgroup analysis by type of PAQ. Only Active-Q, administered in two seasons, and 3-d PA diaries were correlated with TEE by DLW at the population level; however, these two PAQ did not demonstrate an acceptable limit of agreement at individual level. For AEE, no PAQ was correlated with DLW either at the population or at the individual levels. Active-Q and 3-d PA diaries were identified as the only valid PAQ for TEE estimation. Further well-designed studies are needed to verify this result and identify additional valid PAQ.
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