Ethnicity and temperature regulation

Medicine and Sport Science

Volumn 53, Issue , 2008, Pages 104-120

  Lambert, Michael I ^a,c   Mann, Theresa ^a   Dugas, Jonathan P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEAT INJURY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RACE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEATING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 50149101727     PISSN: 02545020     EISSN: 16622812     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1159/000151553     Document Type: Article

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