ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2019
Is Heat Intolerance State or Trait?
Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Heat stress-induced gut dysbiosis and multi-organ injury: mechanisms and therapeutic modulation.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Review
- Heat intolerance: the challenge of returning to duty post-exertional heatstroke.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Review
- Comparison of Rectal and Gastrointestinal Core Temperatures During Heat Tolerance Testing.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Coping with extreme heat: current exposure and implications for the future.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Review
- Association between thermal responses, medical events, performance, heat acclimation and health status in male and female elite athletes during the 2019 Doha World Athletics Championships.British journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Prehospital management of exertional heat stroke at sports competitions: International Olympic Committee Adverse Weather Impact Expert Working Group for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.British journal of sports medicine · 2021Article
- Individual Anthropometric, Aerobic Capacity and Demographic Characteristics as Predictors of Heat Intolerance in Military Populations.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- American football uniforms elicit thermoregulatory failure during a heat tolerance test.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2021Article
- Incidence of Recurrent Exertional Heat Stroke in a Warm-Weather Road Race.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020Article
- When Should a Heat-Tolerance Test Be Scheduled After Clinical Recovery From an Exertional Heat Illness?Journal of athletic training · 2020Article
- The Gastrointestinal Exertional Heat Stroke Paradigm: Pathophysiology, Assessment, Severity, Aetiology and Nutritional Countermeasures.Nutrients · 2020Review
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Abstract
The existing literature suggests two standpoints in defining heat intolerance, which are heat tolerance as state or trait. The former bases its case in the plasticity of human physiology, where one may gain or lose the adaptations associated with heat acclimatization and the ability to tolerate heat is considered transient. This phenomenon is exemplified in the recovery process of exertional heat stroke (EHS) patients in that victims of EHS are able to eventually regain heat tolerance and return to activity without recurrent episodes of EHS. On the other hand, an increasing number of reports imply that genetic predisposition may be associated with one's vulnerability to heat stress. Individuals who seem to exhibit lower than expected exercise tolerance in moderate heat and those who never regain heat tolerance post EHS fall into this category. However, there is a large area of uncertainty in this debate because a true prospective investigation of factors associated with heat intolerance is methodologically difficult. We conclude from the current literature that both mechanisms of heat intolerance (state and trait) should be considered in interpreting the mechanism and cause of heat intolerance.
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