Agreement between the ventilated capsule and the KuduSmart® device for measuring sweating responses to passive heat stress and exercise.

The present study assessed agreement between a wireless sweat rate monitor (KuduSmart® device) and the ventilated capsule (VC) technique for measuring: (i) minute-averaged local sweat rate (LSR), (ii) sweating onset, (iii) sudomotor thermosensitivity, and (iv) steady-state LSR, during passive heat stress and exercise. It was hypothesized that acceptable agreement with no bias would be observed between techniques for all assessed sweating characteristics. On two separate occasions for each intervention, participants were either passively heated by recirculating hot water (49 °C) through a tube-lined garment until rectal temperature increased 1 °C over baseline (

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The KuduSmart® device was provided at no cost to Dr. Nicholas Ravanelli from Crossbridge Scientific Ltd. Crossbridge Scientific Ltd was not involved in study design, data collection, analysis, interpretation of results, or manuscript preparation.