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21. What is the Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) ? - measure of the basal energy required to maintain
life
22. What are the major tissues contributing to the BMR? skeletal (30%), central nervous
system(20%), liver (20%), heart (10%)
23. Fat is needed for the absorption of fat soluble vitamins from the gut. What are these 4
vitamins? A,D,E and K
24. How to calculate BMI/.
25. Why is using a waist to hip ratio used in preference to BMI as a measure of obesity and risk of
CVD?
26. What two conditions are caused by protein/energy malnutrition? kwashiorkor, marasmus
27. Difference between kwashiorkor and marasmus?
28. Why do you get oedema in kwashiorkor?
29. Why is the abdomen distended in kwashiorkor? Hepatomegaly and/or ascites (Accumulation
of fluid in peritoneal cavity)
30. Define homeostasis. control of the internal environment within set limits and is a dynamic
equilibrium rather than a fixed steady state.
31. What is the equation linking creatine and creatine phosphate?
Creatine + ATP Creatine phosphate + ADP (catalysed by creatine kinase)
32. how can creatine phosphate act as a small store of free energy in muscle cells (Skeletal and
cardiac) when the conc of ATP is high , it can be used to drive the synthesis of creatine
phosphate from creatine. ATP can then be regenerated by the reverse reaction when its
concentration falls.
33. How is creatinine produced and excreted?
34. What is the rate of production of creatinine proportional to? concentration of creatine in
muscle and this is related to skeletal muscle mass
35. What does an abnormally high blood creatinine and low urinary creatinine concentration
indicate about kidney function? reduced kidney function