Heart rate and body temperature responses to extreme heat and humidity with and without electric fans

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 313, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 724-725

  Ravanelli, Nicholas M ^a   Hodder, Simon G ^b   Havenith, George ^b   Jay, Ollie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; ELECTRIC FAN; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GENERAL DEVICE; HEART RATE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEATING; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; AIR CONDITIONING; PHYSIOLOGY; SWEAT; THERMOREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

AIR CONDITIONING; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXTREME HEAT; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; SWEAT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923163236     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.153     Document Type: Letter

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