Healthy participants Humid Heat Exposure
Conditions
Interventions
High temperature (32C) and high humidity (RH70%)
Sponsors
Universiteit Maastricht
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: • A potential volunteer who meets all the following criteria can be included for participation in this study: • BMI between 18.5-26 kg/m2 • Age between 20-40 years • Proficient with the English language in both verbal and written form • Healthy; no illness or disease or prescribed medication within the last 3 months • Steady dietary and sleeping habits • Regularly physically active (i.e. regularly active but less than 3 times a week for less than 2 hours per session at moderate intensity) • Non-smoker or person who quit smoking more than five years ago • Reside in the Netherlands (or surrounding countries) for at least 6 months
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: A potential volunteer who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study: • Subjects with cardiac problems and cardiovascular diseases, such as angina pectoris, cardiac infarction, and arrhythmias • Subjects with any medical condition requiring treatment and/or medication (except oral contraceptives) that might interfere with the investigated parameters E.g., Extreme chronotype, colour blindness, epilepsy • Subjects with a disorder or disease (Parkinson, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer, diabetes, cardiovascular disorder, respiratory impairments (for example asthma), hypertension, obesity, or any other condition that can impair the lung function), or Raynaud*s phenomenon • Subjects with abnormal diet and sleeping patters and/or abnormal body weight (weight gain or loss >3kg in the past month) • Subjects who recently participated in other interventional biomedical study within 1 month prior to screening visit • Subjects, who do not want to be informed about unexpected medical findings, or do not wish that their treating physician will be informed, cannot participate in this study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Cognitive performance (cognitive tasks and subjective workload and motivation) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Physiological parameters (skin temperature, skin blood flow, heart rate, core temperature, blood pressure, blood glucose, urine hydration, salivary cortisol), Subjective environment perceptions (thermal, air quality and wetness sensation, comfort, acceptance, preference, pleasure) | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed