Time course of energy expenditure in persistent critical illness: a prospective multicentre study

Timo Oosterveld, Michelle C. Paulus, Benjamin Hess, Henrike Häbel, Åsa Johansson, Nicole Mürner, Annika Reintam Blaser, Kate Fetterplace, Emma J. Ridley, Oana A. Tatucu-Babet, Arthur R. H. van Zanten, Michael Wanecek, Kym Wittholz, Adam Deane, Olav Rooyackers, Martin Sundström Rehal · 2026

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Timo Oosterveld leads a large team charting in 2026 how energy burn evolves in patients stuck in intensive care for ten days or more. Feeding such patients well requires knowing their expenditure, yet long-stay metabolism has been poorly mapped.

Across seven intensive care units in Europe and Australia, 433 patients contributed nearly twelve hundred calorimetry measurements. Average expenditure rose early, peaked near day ten, then declined, a pattern that held after statistical adjustment. A marker of protein breakdown climbed over the same first stretch. Grouping analysis found three trajectories, from low to high burners. The turning point matches the usual onset of persistent critical illness, a clue for tailoring nutrition.

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CREATORTimo Oosterveld, Michelle C. Paulus, Benjamin Hess, Henrike Häbel, Åsa Johansson, Nicole Mürner, Annika Reintam Blaser, Kate Fetterplace, Emma J. Ridley, Oana A. Tatucu-Babet, Arthur R. H. van Zanten, Michael Wanecek, Kym Wittholz, Adam Deane, Olav Rooyackers, Martin Sundström Rehal
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE45 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13214077

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