Variability of temperature measurements recorded by a wearable device by biological sex
Abstract
Females have been historically excluded from biomedical research due in part to the documented presumption that results with male subjects will generalize effectively to females. This has been justified in part by the assumption that ovarian rhythms will increase the overall variance of pooled random samples. But not all variance in samples is random. Human biometrics are continuously changing in response to stimuli and biological rhythms; single measurements taken sporadically do not easily support exploration of variance across time scales. Recently we reported that in mice, core body temperature measured longitudinally shows higher variance in males than cycling females, both within and across individuals at multiple time scales.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 10.1186/s13293-023-00558-z
Entities
People
- Amarnath Gupta
- Anoushka Chowdhary
- Ashley E. Mason
- Benjamin Lee Smarr
- Claudine Anglo
- Frederick M. Hecht
- Lauryn Keeler Bruce
- Leena Pandya
- Patrick Kasl
- Severine Soltani
- Stephan Dilchert
- Subhasis Dasgupta
- Varun K. Viswanath
- Wendy Hartogensis
- İlkay Altıntaş
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- United States Army Medical Research and Development Command