Outdoor Cold Stress and Cold Risk for Children during Winter: A Study in China’s Severe Cold Regions

Excess winter mortality: influenza or cold stress? Observational study.

competing priorities. Overall, the results are challenging and of direct practical relevance. Advice by doctors and nurses reaches primarily light “non-dependent” smokers. Patients who suffer serious health consequences of their smoking, are keen to stop, and yet carry on smoking are typically highly dependent, and single session interventions do not seem to have sufficient power to help them. ...

Cold stress and the cold pressor test.

Temperature and other environmental stressors are known to affect blood pressure and heart rate. In this activity, students perform the cold pressor test, demonstrating increased blood pressure during a 1- to 2-min immersion of one hand in ice water. The cold pressor test is used clinically to evaluate autonomic and left ventricular function. This activity is easily adapted to an inquiry format...

Contamination Caused by Winter Maintenance in Cold Regions

Winter mortality and cold stress in Yekaterinburg, Russia: interview survey.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate how mortality and protective measures against exposure to cold change as temperatures fall between October and March in a region of Russia with a mean winter temperature below -6 degrees C. DESIGN Interview to assess factors associated with cold stress both indoors and outdoors, to measure temperatures in living room, and to survey unheated rooms. SETTING Sverdlovsk O...

golsefid, a new winter type forage cultivar for cold and moderate cold drylands of iran

introduction of a suitable vetch as winter crop in cold drylands of iran is highly important. line vp-2670 with origin of turkey was selected from icarda nursery during 2002 and was evaluated along with other selected lines and local checks over nine years in different stations and on-farm conditions. vp-2670 with mean 3500 kgha-1 dry biomass over environments, high stability and protein conten...