{"id":5322,"date":"2017-12-18T11:31:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T09:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.famelab.gr\/?p=5322"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:15:42","slug":"screening-criteria-for-increased-susceptibility-to-heat-stress-during-work-or-leisure-in-hot-environments-in-healthy-individuals-aged-31-70-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/screening-criteria-for-increased-susceptibility-to-heat-stress-during-work-or-leisure-in-hot-environments-in-healthy-individuals-aged-31-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening criteria for increased susceptibility to heat stress during work or leisure in hot environments in healthy individuals aged 31-70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FAME<\/a>Flouris AD<\/a>, McGinn R, Poirier MP, Louie JC, Ioannou LG<\/a>, Tsoutsoubi L<\/a>, Sigal RJ, Boulay P, Hardcastle SG, Kenny GP. Screening criteria for increased susceptibility to heat stress during work or leisure in hot environments in healthy individuals aged 31-70 years. Temperature (Austin). 2017 Dec 18;5(1):86-99. doi: 10.1080\/23328940.2017.1381800. PMID: 29687046; PMCID: PMC5902215.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Population aging and global warming generate important public health risks, as older adults have increased susceptibility to heat stress (SHS).<\/p>\n

We defined and validated sex-specific screening criteria for SHS during work and leisure activities in hot environments in individuals aged 31-70 years using age, anthropometry, and cardiorespiratory fitness. A total of 123 males and 44 females [44 \u00b1 14 years; 22.9 \u00b1 7.4% body fat; 40.3 \u00b1 8.6 peak oxygen uptake (mlO2\/kg\/min)] participated, separated into the Analysis (n = 111) and Validation (n = 56) groups. Within these groups, participants were categorized into YOUNG (19-30 years; n = 47) and OLDER (31-70 years; n = 120). All participants performed exercise in the heat inside a direct calorimeter. Screening criteria for OLDER participants were defined from the Analysis group and were cross-validated in the Validation group.<\/p>\n

Results showed that 30% of OLDER individuals in the Analysis group were screened as SHS positive. A total of 274 statistically valid (p < 0.05) criteria were identified suggesting that OLDER participants were at risk for SHS when demonstrating two or more of the following (males\/females): age \u2265 53.0\/55.8 years; body mass index \u226529.5\/25.7 kg\/m2; body fat percentage \u2265 28.8\/34.9; body surface area \u22642.0\/1.7 m2; peak oxygen uptake \u226448.3\/41.4 mlO2\/kg fat free mass\/min. In the Validation group, McNemar \u03c72 comparisons confirmed acceptable validity for the developed criteria. We conclude that the developed criteria can effectively screen individuals 31-70 years who are at risk for SHS during work and leisure activities in hot environments and can provide simple and effective means to mitigate the public health risks caused by heat exposure.<\/p>\n

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Flouris AD, McGinn R, Poirier MP, Louie JC, Ioannou LG, Tsoutsoubi L, Sigal RJ, Boulay P, Hardcastle SG, Kenny GP. Screening criteria for increased susceptibility to heat stress during work or leisure in hot environments in healthy individuals aged 31-70 years. Temperature (Austin). 2017 Dec 18;5(1):86-99. doi: 10.1080\/23328940.2017.1381800. PMID: 29687046; PMCID: PMC5902215. Abstract: Population aging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fame-lab-publications-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5322\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/famelab.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}