Infrared thermography for estimating supraclavicular skin temperature and BAT activity in humans: A systematic review
Obesity Nov 14, 2019
Jimenez-Pavon D, et al. - Studies carried out in humans were enrolled in the present work to systematically analyze the state of the art of using infrared thermography (IRT) for assessing supraclavicular skin temperature (SST) as an indirect marker of brown adipose tissue (BAT, a thermogenic tissue with potential as a therapeutic target in the treatment of obesity and correlated metabolic disorders) activity in humans. According to findings, an increase in IRT-measured SST was recorded in most studies in which candidates were first cooled. Just 5 out of 24 these studies, however, also included a nuclear technique that reported increased activity in BAT, and only 2 took into account the fat layer thickness when calculating SST by IRT. Further work is needed to clarify tissue involvement other than BAT in IRT-measured SST determination; at present, IRT can not establish whether any change in SST is due to increased BAT activity.
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