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J Appl Physiol 71: 60-68, 1991;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 71, Issue 1 60-68, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Heat debt during cold air exposure before and after cold water immersions

P. Tikuisis, D. H. McCracken and M. W. Radomski
Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Acclimation to cold can manifest itself in several different ways, insulative and metabolic being the most common. Bittel (J. Appl. Physiol. 62: 1627-1634, 1987) has demonstrated that heat debt, which encompasses both heat production and heat loss, can be used as a unitary index of acclimation. However, conflicting results are obtained if heat debt is calculated using a mean-weighted body temperature (Tb) vs. the change of body heat content through the integration of heat storage (S). The present study examines the determination of heat debt by three methods of calculation, the first based on Tb and the other two based on S where heat losses are measured in one and predicted in the other. Data were obtained from five healthy young males exposed to 10 degrees C air for 2 h on four different occasions. The first two exposures provided control data, while the last two were performed after 5 and 10 days, respectively, of daily immersions in 15 degrees C water to induce acclimation. The variability in response between the control exposures was as large as that among the other exposures. Although the method of calculation using Tb indicated that subjects were close to a thermal balance after 2 h of cold air exposure, this contrasted sharply with the result of the other two methods that indicated heat debt was still increasing steadily. The latter two methods are considered more accurate for transient heat debt calculation. Although cases of individual acclimation were found, these were different among the subjects, resulting in pooled responses that indicated no group acclimation by means of any of the three methods of calculation.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)


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