Variation in sweating patterns: Implications for studies of hot flashes through skin conductance

Menopause

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 742-751

  Sievert, Lynnette Leidy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Heat acclimation; Hot flashes; Mexico; Sweat physiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEAT STRESS; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEASUREMENT; MEXICO; POPULATION RESEARCH; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEATING; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; SWEATING;

EID: 34447341696     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3180577841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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