Thermal and metabolic responses of high and low fat women to cold water immersion

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 887-891

  Prisby, Rhonda ^a   Glickman Weiss, Ellen L ^b   Nelson, Arnold G ^a   Caine, Natalie ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; Temperature regulation; Water immersion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; METABOLISM; THERMOREGULATION; WATER IMMERSION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMERSION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032693402     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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