ArticleCommunications earth & environment2023
Heat stress vulnerability and critical environmental limits for older adults.
Article in Communications earth & environment, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- No effect of stage 1 hypertension or hypertensive medication on critical environmental limits (PSU HEAT Project).American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025Article
- Intermittent hand and forearm immersion in 20°C water attenuates thermal, cardiovascular, and perceptual strain in older adults during heat stress.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- Ten new insights in climate science 2024.One earth (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Review
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- Validation of livability environmental limits to heat and humidity.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Article
- Sex differences in heat stress vulnerability among middle-aged and older adults (PSU HEAT Project).American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2024Article
- Sex differences in thermophysiological responses of elderly to low-intensity exercise during uncompensable heat strain.European journal of applied physiology · 2024Article
- Critical environmental core temperature limits and heart rate thresholds across the adult age span (PSU HEAT Project).Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2024Article
- Why not 35°C? Reasons for reductions in limits of human thermal tolerance and their implications.Temperature (Austin, Tex.) · 2024Article
- Coping with extreme heat: current exposure and implications for the future.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2024Review
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Abstract
The present study examined heat stress vulnerability of apparently healthy older vs. young adults and characterized critical environmental limits for older adults in an indoor setting at rest (Rest) and during minimal activity associated with activities of daily living. Critical environmental limits are combinations of ambient temperature and humidity above which heat balance cannot be maintained (i.e., becomes uncompensable) for a given metabolic heat production. Here we exposed fifty-one young (23±4 yrs) and 49 older (71±6 yrs) adults to progressive heat stress across a wide range of environments in an environmental chamber during Minimal Activity (young and older subjects) and Rest (older adults only). Heat compensability curves were shifted leftward for older adults indicating age-dependent heat vulnerablity (p < 0.01). During Minimal Activity, critical environmental limits were lower in older compared to young adults (p < 0.0001) and lower than those at Rest (
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