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Table 1 Body Surface Area formulae used for the comparison.

From: Body surface area formulae: an alarming ambiguity

Authors	Formula	Reference
Meeh (1879)	0.1053 ⋅ W^2/3	1
DuBois & DuBois (1916)	0.007184 ⋅ W^0.425 ⋅ H^0.725	2
Faber & Melcher (1921)	0.00785 ⋅ W^0.425 ⋅ H^0.725	31
Takahira (1925)	0.007246 ⋅ W^0.425 ⋅ H^0.725	32
Breitmann (1932)	0.0087 ⋅ (W + H) − 0.26	33
Boyd (1935)	0.0003207 ⋅ (W ⋅ 1000)^{0.7285 − 0.0188 ⋅ log}₁₀^{(W ⋅ 1000)} ⋅ H^0.3	34
Stevenson (1937)	0.0128 ⋅ W + 0.0061 ⋅ H − 0.1529	35
Sendroy & Cecchini (1954)	0.0097 ⋅ (W + H) − 0.545	36
Banerjee & Sen (1955)	0.007466 ⋅ W^0.425 ⋅ H^0.725	37
Choi (1956)	men: 0.005902 ⋅ W^0.407 ⋅ H^0.776 women: 0.008692 ⋅ W^0.442 ⋅ H^0.678	38
Mehra (1958)	0.01131 ⋅ W^0.4092 ⋅ H^0.6468	39
Banerjee & Bhattacharya (1961)	0.007 ⋅ W^0.425 ⋅ H^0.725	40
Fujimoto et al. (1968)	0.008883 ⋅ W^0.444 ⋅ H^0.663	41
Gehan & George (1970)	0.0235 ⋅ W^0.51456 ⋅ H^0.42246	42
Haycock et al. (1978)	0.024265 ⋅ W^0.5378 ⋅ H^0.3964	43
Mosteller (1987)		44
Mattar (1989)	(W + H − 60)/100	45
Nwoye (1989)	0.001315 ⋅ W^0.262 ⋅ H^1.2139	46
Shuter & Aslani (2000)	0.00949 ⋅ W^0.441 ⋅ H^0.655	47
Livingston & Lee (2001)	0.1173 ⋅ W^0.6466	48
Tikuisis (2001)	men: 0.01281 ⋅ W^0.44 ⋅ H^0.6 women: 0.01474 ⋅ W^0.47 ⋅ H^0.55	49
Nwoye & Al-Sheri (2003)	0.02036 ⋅ W^0.427 ⋅ H^0.516	50
Yu, Lo, Chiou (2003)	0.015925 ⋅ (W ⋅ H)^0.5	3
Schlich (2010)	men: 0.000579479 ⋅ W^0.38 ⋅ H^1.24 women: 0.000975482 ⋅ W^0.46 ⋅ H^1.08	4
Yu, Lin, Yang (2010)	0.00713989 ⋅ W^0.404 ⋅ H^0.7437	5

W indicates weight in kilograms and H indicates height in centimetres.

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