Regarding the basal metabolic rate, which of the following is TRUE?

• A. it is measured in the absence of disease, at room temperature, within 12 hours of a meal with a Benedict apparatus and the subject asleep
• B. it increases 24% per degree Celsius of body temperature above 37
• C. it is decreased during the latter stage of starvation, explaining the initial rapid weight loss than a slowing down of weight loss
• D. it declines in pregnancy
• E. it correlates closer to weight than to body surface area