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Halsey LG, Careau V, Ainslie PN, Alemán-Mateo H, Andersen LF, Anderson LJ, Arab L, Baddou I, Bandini L, Bedu-Addo K, Blaak EE, Blanc S, Bonomi AG, Bouten CVC, Bovet P, Brage S, Buchowski MS, Butte NF, Camps SG, Casper R, Close GL, Colbert LH, Cooper JA, Cooper R, Dabare P, Das SK, Davies PSW, Deb S, Nyström CD, Dietz W, Dugas LR, Eaton S, Ekelund U, Hamdouchi AE, Entringer S, Forrester T, Fudge BW, Gillingham M, Goris AH, Gurven M, Haisma H, Hambly C, Hoffman DJ, Hoos MB, Hu S, Joonas N, Joosen A, Katzmarzyk P, Kempen KP, Kimura M, Kraus WE, Kriengsinyos W, Kuriyan R, Kushner RF, Lambert EV, Lanerolle P, Larsson CL, Lessan N, Löf M, Martin CK, Matsiko E, Meijer GA, Morehen JC, Morton JP, Must A, Neuhouser M, Nicklas TA, Ojiambo RM, Pietilainen KH, Pitsiladis YP, Plange-Rhule J, Plasqui G, Prentice RL, Rabinovich R, Racette SB, Raichen DA, Ravussin E, Redman L, Reilly JJ, Reynolds RM, Roberts S, Samaranayake D, Sardinha LB, Schuit AJ, Silva AM, Sinha S, Sjödin AM, Stice E, Stunkard A, Urlacher SS, Valencia ME, Valenti G, van Etten LM, Van Mil EA, Verbunt JA, Wells JCK, Wilson G, Wood B, Yoshida T, Zhang X, Murphy-Alford A, Loechl C, Luke A, Pontzer H, Rood J, Sagayama H, Westerterp KR, Wong WW, Yamada Y, Speakman JR. Greater male variability in daily energy expenditure develops through puberty. Biol Lett 2023; 19:20230152. [PMID: 37727077 PMCID: PMC10509569 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/21/2023] Open
Abstract
There is considerably greater variation in metabolic rates between men than between women, in terms of basal, activity and total (daily) energy expenditure (EE). One possible explanation is that EE is associated with male sexual characteristics (which are known to vary more than other traits) such as musculature and athletic capacity. Such traits might be predicted to be most prominent during periods of adolescence and young adulthood, when sexual behaviour develops and peaks. We tested this hypothesis on a large dataset by comparing the amount of male variation and female variation in total EE, activity EE and basal EE, at different life stages, along with several morphological traits: height, fat free mass and fat mass. Total EE, and to some degree also activity EE, exhibit considerable greater male variation (GMV) in young adults, and then a decreasing GMV in progressively older individuals. Arguably, basal EE, and also morphometrics, do not exhibit this pattern. These findings suggest that single male sexual characteristics may not exhibit peak GMV in young adulthood, however total and perhaps also activity EE, associated with many morphological and physiological traits combined, do exhibit GMV most prominently during the reproductive life stages.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lewis G. Halsey
- School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Roehampton, London SW15 4JD, UK
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- Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
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- Coordinación de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), A.C., Carretera Gustavo Enrique Astiazarán Rosas, No. 46, Col. La Victoria, C.P. 83304, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
| | - Lene F. Andersen
- Department of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, 0317 Oslo, Norway
| | - Liam J. Anderson
- School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
| | - Leonore Arab
- David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
| | - Issad Baddou
- Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation, CNESTEN-Université Ibn Tofail, Rabat, PC.10100, Morocco
| | - Linda Bandini
- University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA
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- Department of Physiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
| | - Ellen E. Blaak
- Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 6200 MD, Netherlands
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- Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, CNRS Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven Unversity of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- University Center for primary care and public health (Unisante), 1012 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka
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- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
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- Child Health Research Centre, Level 6 Centre for Children's Health Research, University of Queensland, 62 Graham Street, South Brisbane, Queensland, 4101, Australia
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- Centre for Nutraceuticals, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK
- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
- Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Department of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, PO Box 4014, 0806 Ulleval Stadion, Oslo, Norway
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- Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation, CNESTEN-Université Ibn Tofail, Rabat, PC.10100, Morocco
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- Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Institute of Medical Psychology, Berlin, Germany
- University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Solutions for Developing Countries, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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- Physiology Department, Aspire Academy, Doha, PO Box 22287, Qatar
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- Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Population Research Centre, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, Landleven 1, 9747AD, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK
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- Department of Nutritional Sciences, Program in International Nutrition, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 6200 MD, Netherlands
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- Institute of Genetics and development Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beichen Xi lu, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Central health Laboratory, Ministry of Health and Wellness, Port Louis, 72259, Mauritius
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Institute for Active Health, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kyoto, Japan
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- Division of Nutrition, St John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560034, India
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- Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport Research Centre, Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine (ESSM), FIMS International Collaborating Centre of Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden
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- Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Rwanda, Kigali, Rwanda
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 6200 MD, Netherlands
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- Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
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- Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
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- Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya
- University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda
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- Department of Physiology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
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- Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98109, USA
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- College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, 85004, USA
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- Biological Sciences and Anthropology, University of Southern California, CA, USA
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Department of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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- Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK
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- Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA
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- Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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- Exercise and health laboratory, CIPER, Faculdade Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Executive Board, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, 5037 AB, The Netherlands
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- Exercise and health laboratory, CIPER, Faculdade Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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- Division of Nutrition, St John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560034, India
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- Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- PhD Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 401 Quarry Road, Stanford, CA 94305
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- University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry
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- Coordinación de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD), A.C., Carretera Gustavo Enrique Astiazarán Rosas, No. 46, Col. La Victoria, C.P. 83304, Hermosillo, Sonora, México
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Chair Youth, Food and Health, Maastricht University, 5911 BV, Venlo, and Lifestyle Medicine Center for Children, Jeroen Bosch Hospital 5223 GW `s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
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- imec within OnePlanet Research Center, 6708 WE, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Population, Policy and Practice Research and Teaching Department, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, London, WC1N 1EH, UK
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- Research Institute for Sport & Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK
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- University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 90095, USA
- Department of Human Behavior, Ecology, and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig 04103, Germany
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- National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
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- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Metabolic Health, Center for Energy Metabolism and Reproduction, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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- Nutritional and Health Related Environmental Studies Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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- Nutritional and Health Related Environmental Studies Section, Division of Human Health, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Public Health Sciences, Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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- Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708, USA
- Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham NC 27708, USA
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- Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA, 70808, USA
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- Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8574, Japan
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- Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, 6200 MD, Netherlands
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- Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, TX, 77030, USA
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- Institute for Active Health, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kyoto, Japan
- National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK
- Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Metabolic Health, Center for Energy Metabolism and Reproduction, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China
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