Reactions of men and women to repeated exposure to humid heat

Heat Stress and Culture in North India

“…What sre described as "striking" sex differences in blood pressure changes «ia also reported, mainly in the fact that the diastolic blood pressure decreases much core with continued heat r.tress among men than among women (Morimoto et el, 1967, p. 532). However, as previously found by Hardy and Du *ois, women, unlike men, show a significant decrease in rectal temperature (Weinman et al 1967, p. 538) Yet, both men and women appear to be able to achieve similar increments of overall heat acclimatization, suggesting that there may be a number of different "configurations of component regulatory processes" which produce a functionally similar end-result. In fret, a serious defect in the scientific literature is said to be that most of the experimental studies cf sex differences in heat tolerance have been made in unacclimatized rather than acclimatized subjects (Newman 1971).…”

Sauna-induced body mass loss in physically inactive young women and men

“…Numerous studies analysing differences between the sexes demonstrated a much higher increase in whole-body sweat rate in men than in women as the result of adaptation to humid heat [2,4,8,45]. Avellini et al [2] observed a significantly higher increase in the whole-body sweat rate in men than in women (35% vs. 15%) after 10 days of adaptation to humid heat.…”

Observations on Women Working under Thermal Stress

“…al. 1965, Weinman 1967. Others have found that there are no differences at rest or during light work in heat (Haslag andHertzman 1965, Morimoto et.al.…”

“…Weinman (1967) concluded that there is no real difference in the acclimatization that can be reached in men and women but that they may achieve equal acclimatization in different ways using different configurations of components of the regulating process.…”