The effects of skin moisture and subcutaneous fat thickness on the ability of the skin to dissipate heat in young and old subjects, with and without diabetes, at three environmental room temperatures

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 165-172

  McLellan, Katie ^a   Petrofsky, Jerrold S ^a   Bains, Gurinder ^a   Zimmerman, Grenith ^a   Prowse, Michelle ^a   Lee, Scott ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Diabetes; Heat dissipation; Skin moisture; Subcutaneous fat

Indexed keywords

AGING; DIABETES; HEAT DISSIPATION; SKIN MOISTURE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

BLOOD; HEAT EXCHANGERS; HEMODYNAMICS; MOISTURE; YTTRIUM ALLOYS;

SKIN;

IRON;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND; HEAT EXCHANGE; HUMAN; MOISTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENT; FOOT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TEMPERATURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59049094122     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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