Patent ID: 8540641

Claim:
A device for predicting a resting metabolic rate of a person having a weight, height, age, and gender, the device comprising: a controller having one or more inputs, the controller using resting diastolic and systolic blood pressure measurements as independent variables in a predictive equation, wherein the predictive equation is RMR= K 1 *W *(1− K 2 *W/H 2 )+ K 3 *H−K 4 *AK 5 *G+K 6 −*D−K 7 *S+K 8 wherein RMR is the resting metabolic rate of the person, W is the weight of the person, H is the height of the person, A is the age of the person, G is the gender of the person, D is the diastolic blood pressure of the person, S is the systolic blood pressure of the person, and K 1 , K 2 , K 3 , K 4 , K 5 , K 6 , K 7 , and K 8 are constants.