ArticleTemperature (Austin, Tex.)2025
Facial cooling improves thermal perceptions and maintains the interleukin-6 response during passive heating: A sex comparison.
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- Whole-blood transcriptomic response to whole-body hyperthermia in participants with major depressive disorder.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2026Article
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- Acute Finnish sauna heating and cold water immersion effects on cardiovascular dynamic response in normotensive women.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Heat therapy: Strategies to enhance thermal comfort without compromising benefits.Experimental physiology · 2025Article
- The acute effects of continuous and intermittent whole-body passive heating on cardiovascular disease risk indicators in healthy and young males and females.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Passively elevating body temperature can trigger a potentially beneficial acute inflammatory response. However, heat therapy often causes discomfort and negative thermal perceptions, particularly in females who generally have lower heat tolerance than males. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of facial cooling on thermal comfort and interleukin-6 concentration in response to 60 minutes of dry heat exposure, and to investigate sex differences in physiological responses and perceptions. 22 healthy young adults (10 females, 12 males; age: 24.4 ± 3.3 years) completed three trials in randomized order using a dry sauna device: 1) Hyperthermia (71.1 ± 1.9°C; HEAT), 2) Hyperthermia with facial cooling via fans (71.1 ± 3.0°C; FAN), and 3) Normothermia (27.0 ± 0.9°C; CON). Blood samples to determine interleukin-6 (IL-6) plasma concentration were collected before and after exposure; basic affect and thermal comfort, rectal and skin temperature were assessed throughout the intervention. Rectal temperature following HEAT (38.0 ± 0.3°C) and FAN (37.8 ± 0.3°C) did not differ between males and females (
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