At what level of heat load are age-related impairments in the ability to dissipate heat evident in females?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Stapleton, Jill M ^a   Poirier, Martin P ^a   Flouris, Andreas D ^b   Boulay, Pierre ^c   Sigal, Ronald J ^d   Malcolm, Janine ^e   Kenny, Glen P ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CALORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVAPORATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE RECOVERY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEAT LOSS; HEAT STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; METABOLISM; NORMAL HUMAN; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART RATE; HEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925436607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119079     Document Type: Article

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