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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006;131:506-507
© 2006 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

A new modeling for each population

Experimental Toxicology, Department-Modeling Group, INERIS (National Institute for industrial Environment and RISks), 60550 Verneuil en Halatte, France

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To the Editor:

I read with great interest the recently published study by Fakler and associates ¹ in the August 2005 issue of the Journal. They found, in their investigation, a poor agreement between the measured oxygen consumption (VO₂) and the VO₂ estimated using the formulas of Krovetz and Goldbloom ² and LaFarge and Miettinen. ³ According to the Krovetz-Goldbloom formula, the mean difference was –53 mL/min/m² and the limits of agreement were –95.5 and –11.1 mL/min/m² for the lower and upper limits, respectively. Use of the Krovetz-Goldbloom formula led to a systematic and significant overestimation in VO₂ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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