Further Consideration of the Effect of Altitude on Basal Metabolism

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Abstract
Ninety determinations of basal metabolism on forty-three young women residents of Denver between the ages of 17 and 26 years, inclusive, are reported. When the results of these determinations are compared with the values obtained in similar investigations at other altitudes during the last 15 years, the basal metabolism of the young women studied at Denver (altitude 5,280 feet) is found to agree closely with, or to be lower than, the observations on women of comparable ages at elevations below 1,000 feet. No consistent relationship exists between the basal metabolism of the young women observed in all of these studies and the altitude at which the determinations were made. The relatively high values for basal metabolism at the higher elevations that have been reported in the literature cited as due to altitude must be attributable to some other causative factor.