KROK 1 2015 – Question 49 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
When measuring power inputs of a person by the method of indirect calorimetry the following results were obtained: oxygen consumption is 1000 ml and carbon dioxide production is 800 ml per minute. The person under examination has the following respiratory coefficient:
- A. 1.0
- B. 1.25
- C. 0.8
- D. 0.84
- E. 0.9
Hint
Recall the definition of the respiratory coefficient as a ratio and decide which gas goes in the numerator and which in the denominator.
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