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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Anesthesiology. 2005 Mar;102(3):509–514. doi: 10.1097/00000542-200503000-00006

Table 2.

Thermal Perception, Pain Perception, and Pain Tolerance Thresholds.

Red Hair Dark Hair P
Data presented as medians [interquartile range]. Comparisons made with Mann-Whitney rank-sum test.
Cold Sensory Perception Threshold (°C) 30.7 [30.3, 31.0] 30.5 [29.9, 31.2] 0.596
Cold Pain Perception Threshold (°C) 22.6 [15.1, 26.1] 12.6 [0.0, 20.0] 0.004
Cold Pain Tolerance Threshold (°C) 6.0 [0.0, 9.7] 0.0 [0.0, 2.0] 0.001
Heat Sensory Perception Threshold (°C) 33.8 [33.5, 34.0] 33.5 [33.4, 33.8] 0.015
Heat Pain Perception Threshold (°C) 41.4 [39.7, 43.1] 42.4 [41.3, 44.6] 0.059
Heat Pain Tolerance Threshold (°C) 46.3 [45.7, 47.5] 47.7 [46.6, 48.7] 0.009