… Under thermal stress, the human body achieves heat … body temperature rises, which leads
to heat stroke, a life-threatening … dysfunction in the setting of an environmental thermal load. …

… contribute to an increased rate of heatstroke death at low thermal loads, and 3) retrospectively,
both heatsensitive and heat-resistant … Heat stroke: clinical and chemical observations …

… An increased thermal load leads to cutaneous vasodilatation, an increased cardiac output, …
Anhidrosis that occurs in classical heatstroke may not occur in exertional heatstroke, victims …

… critical thermal maximum (ie, the level and duration of core heating). The critical thermal
maximum in … Thus, women store less heat than men for a given workload. This may be related to …

… to heat stroke earlier in life. Previously, we explored mechanistic links between 3 heat stroke
and … using a preclinical mouse model of 4 exertional heat stroke (EHS). Profound metabolic …

… significantly decrease the thermal load to develop HS (… heat exposure may contribute to a
decreased survival rate of HS (46.9% at rest-heated and 31.3% at run-heated). Impaired heat …

… The metabolic heat load causes the temperature to rise when the body's normal … The
damage is a result not only of thermal load but that of inflammatory changes that this elevated …

… The accumulated heat load must be dissipated at the same rate as it is produced or gained
to maintain body temperature within the accepted or safe physiological range. An increase in …

… As the rate of heat transfer is largely dependent on the thermal gradient, the limited … >42C,
the core-to-skin thermal gradient and resultant heat transfer is likely greater as well. Military …

Introduction Precipitating factors that contribute to the severity of exertional heat stroke (EHS)
are unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of prior illness (PI) on …