Table 1.
Author | Reference | Year | Plateau Cutaneous vascular conductance (%max) | Comment |
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Young smokers | ||||
Present study | 77 | |||
Young nonsmokers | ||||
Hodges and Sparks | 21 | 2014 | 86–90 | At a rate of 0.5°C/10 s |
Brunt and Minson | 5 | 2012 | 84–88 | |
Bruning et al. | 3 | 2012 | 95 | |
Greaney et al. | 16 | 2012 | 93 | |
Wong and Fieger | 54 | 2010 | 92 | |
Kellogg et al. | 33 | 2008 | 85 | Local heating to 41.5°C at a rate of 0.6°C/min |
Stewart et al. | 49 | 2008 | 91 |
All of the above studies used local heating to 42°C at a rate of 0.1°C/s unless otherwise indicated.