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Normal Body Temperature: A Systematic Review
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PubMed was searched from 1935 to December 2017 with a variety of search phrases among article titles. The references of the identified manuscripts were then manually searched. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) the paper presented data on measured normal body temperature of healthy human subjects ages 18 and older, (2) a prospective design was used, and (3) the paper was written in or translated into the English language. Thirty-six articles met the inclusion criteria. This comprised 9227 measurement sites from 7636 subjects. The calculated ranges (mean ± 2 standard deviations) were 36.32–37.76 (rectal), 35.76–37.52 (tympanic), 35.61–37.61 (urine), 35.73–37.41 (oral), and 35.01–36.93 (axillary). Older adults (age ≥60) had lower temperature than younger adults (age <60) by 0.23°C, on average. There was only insignificant gender difference. Compared with the currently established reference point for normothermia of 36.8°C, our means are slightly lower but the difference likely has no physiological importance. We conclude that the most important patient factors remain site of measurement and patient’s age.
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- Authors
- Geneva, I. I., Cuzzo, B., Fazili, T., & Javaid, W.
- Venue
- Open Forum Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2019-04-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- ofz032-ofz032
- ISSN
- 2328-8957 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2945339745
- Cited by
- 298
- References
- 43
- FWCI
- 5.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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