Cold exposure is present to significant amounts in the everyday occupational and leisure
time activities of circumpolar residents. A cross‐sectional population study demonstrated
that Finns reported being exposed to cold on average 4% of their total time. Factors
modifying cold exposure are: age, gender, employment, education, health, and amount of
physical exercise. Several symptoms and complaints are associated with wintertime cold
exposure and start to appear more commonly when temperatures decrease below− 10° C …

The purpose of the study was to examine the amount of cold exposure and factors affecting it
at the population level in Finland, to determine what type of cold acclimatisation, if any,
develops in urban residents in winter, and to find out whether cold acclimatisation or
acclimation has a functional significance on psychological or physical performance. Tasks of
low physical activity requiring attention and concentration (cognition, postural control) were
assessed in cold. In a cross-sectional population study Finns aged from 25 to 74 years (n …