Sweat output measurement of the post-ganglion sudomotor response by Q-Sweat Test: a normative database of Chinese individuals

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Shu Fang ^a,b   Chang, Ya Ting ^a   Lu, Cheng Hsien ^a   Huang, Chi Ren ^a   Tsai, Nei Wen ^a   Chang, Chiung Chih ^a,b   Huang, Chih Cheng ^a   Chuang, Yao Chung ^a   Chang, Wen Neng ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Age; Body height; Body mass index; Body weight; Chinese; Gender; Normative database; Q Sweat; Sweat output

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; Q SWEAT TEST; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWEAT TEST;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SEX FACTORS; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEAT; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861920180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-62     Document Type: Article

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