Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts
Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts.
J Appl Physiol (1985). 2017 Sep 1;123(3):632-636. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00433.2017. Epub 2017 Jul 6.
The measurement of whole body sweat losses (WBSL) is important to the study of body heat balance, body water balance, establishing guidelines for water and electrolyte consumption, and the study of metabolism and health. In principal, WBSL is measured by an acute change in body mass (ΔBM) in response to a thermoregulatory sweating stimulus. In this Cores of Reproducibility in Physiology (CORP) review, we revisit several basic, but rarely discussed, assumptions important to WBSL research, including the common equivalences: mass = weight = water = sweat. Sources of large potential measurement errors are also discussed, as are best practices for avoiding them. The goal of this CORP review is to ultimately improve the accuracy, reproducibility, and application of WBSL research.
全身汗失量（WBSL）的测量对于研究体热平衡、体液平衡、制定水和电解质消耗指南以及研究代谢和健康非常重要。原则上，WBSL 通过身体质量（ΔBM）对热调节出汗刺激的急性变化来测量。在本次生理学可重复性核心（CORP）综述中，我们重新审视了 WBSL 研究中几个基本但很少讨论的重要假设，包括常见的等同：质量=重量=水=汗。还讨论了潜在的大测量误差的来源，以及避免这些误差的最佳实践。本次 CORP 综述的目的是最终提高 WBSL 研究的准确性、可重复性和应用。
