Figure 5.
Mean [95% confidence interval] and individual skin temperature (TF-avg) of all fingers (A) and cutaneous vascular conductance (CVC) of the index finger (B) of the right hand obtained during the 30-min hand cold-water immersion (H-CWI), the 15-min hand-rewarming (H-RW), and the 30-min body-rewarming (B-RW) phases in the normothermic provocation trial, performed before, and after the 5-day acclimation regimen. CA group, cold-acclimation group (n = 7 men); CON group, control group (n = 7 men). Data were analyzed with two-way repeated-measures ANOVA, followed by Duncan’s multiple range test (P ≤ 0.05). Significantly different from the preacclimation trial (*) and from the CON group (†).