Basal metabolic rate calculation.
Basal metabolic rate calculation.
Hi,
I've found on Wikipedia the following formula to calculate the BMR estimation
We can read just after the formula:
According to this formula, the woman in the example above has a BMR of 1,204 kilocalories (5,040 kJ) per day.
But when I take their example of a 55-year-old woman weighing 130 pounds (59 kg) and 66 inches (170 cm)
and do
((10*55)+(6,25*170)-(5*55))-161 I get 1,217 and not 1,204
Am I doing something wrong ?
Thanks.
Looks like the conservation to cm is written wrong in the wiki article.
66 in is closer to 168 cm, putting that into the equation for h yields the expected 1204
That's interesting. I was going to edit the wiki page to correct the error, but the wiki code in the article is: {{convert|66|in|cm}} so their underlying converter is what's producing that inaccurate value.
Seems like it's overly aggressive rounding.
According to chatgpt you can specify to the zeroth decimal which makes it display 168
{{convert|66|in|cm|0}}
Fixed it. There was no precision specified in the conversion.