Nutrition
BMR (Mifflin-St Jeor)
Resting energy expenditure for adults.
Required inputs
- Weight (kg)
- Height (cm)
- Age (yrs)
- Sex
- Activity factor
Equation or source
Mifflin MD. AJCN 1990;51:241.
Provenance and release status
- Equation / algorithm
- Resting energy expenditure for adults.
- Formula version
- bmr-msj-v1
- Tool version
- 2.4.0
- Clinical risk class
- A. EDUCATIONAL CALCULATOR
- Release status
- Under clinical review
- Source status
- Direct primary source identifier not yet resolved
- Clinical review status
- Under clinical verification
- Clinical review date
- Clinical review date not yet documented
DOI / PMID / direct guideline identifier not yet documented.
Assumptions
- Entered values and units are accurate and apply to the population described by the cited source.
- The published equation or rule is being used without a patient-specific clinical adjustment.
Important limitations
- The result does not replace clinical assessment or establish a diagnosis.
- Performance outside the source population may differ.