@article{ref1,
title="Activity modification in heat: critical assessment of guidelines across athletic, occupational, and military settings in the USA",
journal="International journal of biometeorology",
year="2019",
author="Hosokawa, Yuri and Casa, Douglas J. and Trtanj, Juli M. and Belval, Luke N. and Deuster, Patricia A. and Giltz, Sarah M. and Grundstein, Andrew J. and Hawkins, Michelle D. and Huggins, Robert A. and Jacklitsch, Brenda and Jardine, John F. and Jones, Hunter and Kazman, Josh B. and Reynolds, Mark E. and Stearns, Rebecca L. and Vanos, Jennifer K. and Williams, Alan L. and Williams, W. Jon",
volume="63",
number="3",
pages="405-427",
abstract="Exertional heat illness (EHI) risk is a serious concern among athletes, laborers, and warfighters. US Governing organizations have established various activity modification guidelines (AMGs) and other risk mitigation plans to help ensure the health and safety of their workers. The extent of metabolic heat production and heat gain that ensue from their work are the core reasons for EHI in the aforementioned population. Therefore, the major focus of AMGs in all settings is to modulate the work intensity and duration with additional modification in adjustable extrinsic risk factors (e.g., clothing, equipment) and intrinsic risk factors (e.g., heat acclimatization, fitness, hydration status). Future studies should continue to integrate more physiological (e.g., valid body fluid balance, internal body temperature) and biometeorological factors (e.g., cumulative heat stress) to the existing heat risk assessment models to reduce the assumptions and limitations in them. Future interagency collaboration to advance heat mitigation plans among physically active population is desired to maximize the existing resources and data to facilitate advancement in AMGs for environmental heat.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-7128",
doi="10.1007/s00484-019-01673-6",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01673-6"
}