Publications by authors named "Marie Gombert-Labedens"
Article Synopsis
- Most menstrual cycle studies have focused on small, lab-based samples of young women, limiting understanding of broader impacts across different ages and real-life conditions.
- This study involved 116 healthy females, comprising young and midlife groups, using wearable tech to monitor finger temperature, heart rate, physical activity, and self-reported symptoms throughout the menstrual cycle.
- Findings revealed that temperature fluctuated with the menstrual cycle phases, HR was lowest during menses for both groups, but sleep metrics remained stable regardless of cycle changes.
The menstrual cycle is a loop involving the interplay of different organs and hormones, with the capacity to impact numerous physiological processes, including body temperature and heart rate, which in turn display menstrual rhythms. The advent of wearable devices that can continuously track physiological data opens the possibility of using these prolonged time series of skin temperature data to noninvasively detect the temperature variations that occur in ovulatory menstrual cycles. Here, we show that the menstrual skin temperature variation is better represented by a model of oscillation, the cosinor, than by a biphasic square wave model.
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