Table 1.
Average Temperature (Tavg), Minimum Temperature (Tmin), Maximum Temperature (Tmax), Number of Local Skin-Temperature Waves (N), Temperature Amplitude of the Wave (ΔT) and Duration of the Wave (Δt) in the Palmar Side of the Distal Phalanx of Each Finger of the Right Hand Obtained During the 30-Min Cold-Water Hand Immersion in the Control (AIR) and Normobaric Hypoxic (HYPO) Test
| AIR test | HYPO test | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finger | Finger | |||||||||||
| I | II | III | IV | V | Average | I | II | III | IV | V | Average | |
| Tavg (°C) | 10.3±0.8 | 10.4±0.7 | 10.3±0.8 | 10.1±0.6 | 9.7±0.5 | 10.2±0.5 | 10.0±0.6 | 10.4±0.7 | 10.1±0.6 | 10.0±0.6 | 9.6±0.6 | 10.0±0.5 |
| Tmin (°C) | 8.7±0.6 | 8.8±0.6 | 8.5±0.6 | 8.5±0.5 | 8.3±0.4 | 8.6±0.5 | 8.7±0.6 | 9.0±0.7 | 8.6±0.7 | 8.6±0.6 | 8.3±0.5 | 8.6±0.6 |
| Tmax (°C) | 12.3±1.2 | 12.1±1.4 | 12.3±2.2 | 11.7±1.0 | 11.0±1.1 | 11.9±1.1 | 11.6±0.9 | 11.8±0.8 | 11.5±0.5 | 11.3±1.1 | 10.8±1.2 | 11.4±0.6* |
| N | 0 (0–2) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–2) | 0 (0–2) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–3) | 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–2) |
| ΔT (°C) | 0.7±0.9 | 2.3±1.8 | 2.2±2.0 | 2.2±1.4 | 1.8±1.6 | 1.8±1.2 | 0.5±0.7 | 1.8±1.3 | 1.5±1.2 | 1.7±1.6 | 1.7±1.4 | 1.4±1.1 |
| Δt (min) | 3.2±3.7 | 8.5±5.0 | 7.3±5.6 | 7.1±3.9 | 7.3±4.9 | 6.7±2.8 | 2.2±3.4 | 7.3±4.4 | 5.7±4.5 | 6.1±4.1 | 6.1±3.6 | 5.5±3.3 |
Values are mean±SD. Values are median (range) for N. *Significant difference from the AIR test; (p=0.05).