Responses to mild cold stress are predicted by different individual characteristics in young and older subjects

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1607-1615

  DeGroot, David W ^a   Havenith, George ^b   Kenney, W Larry ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Body composition; Core temperature; Tissue insulation

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYRONINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BODY SURFACE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE MASS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; STRESS;

EID: 33845412325     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00717.2006     Document Type: Article

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