Limb Skin Temperature as a Tool to Predict Orthostatic Instability

Limb Skin Temperature as a Tool to Predict Orthostatic Instability

Orthostatic instability is one of the main consequences of weightlessness or gravity challenge and plays as well a crucial role in public health, being one of the most frequent disease of aging. Therefore, the assessment of effective countermeasures, or even the possibility to predict, and thus prev...

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Main Authors: Oliver Opatz, Michael Nordine, Helmut Habazettl, Bergita Ganse, Jan Petricek, Petr Dosel, Alexander Stahn, Mathias Steinach, Hanns-Christian Gunga, Martina A. Maggioni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
Subjects:
lower body negative pressure
skin temperature
blood pooling
acceleration
orthostatic hypotension
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2018.01241/full

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