摘要 |
Apparatus for measuring metabolic status of an organism which comprises (a) means (22) for subjecting an organism to varying levels of at least one type of stress (b) means (21) for measuring the oxygen consumption of the organism at the varying levels of stress, and (c) means (28) for generating a pattern of variation in oxygen consumption (b) as a function of variation in stress (a), and optionally (d) means for evaluating the pattern. |