• Vol. 37 No. 11, 988–988
  • 15 November 2008

The Perils of Allometric Scaling

I read with interest the paper by Chia and Aziz. Using allometric scaling, the authors adjusted peak oxygen uptake (VO2max) for the confounding influence of body mass and found that mass exponents differed markedly for male and female athletes.

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