Thermal comfort zones in the Vietnamese.

Thermally comfortable zones in Vietnamese were investigated during winter in Hanoi. The subjects were 21 males (age: 19.7 +/- 0.

Sweating and tympanic temperature during warm water immersion compared between Vietnamese and Japanese living in Hanoi.

The present study compared between Japanese and Vietnamese subjects living in Hanoi, the local evaporation rate by sweating and the tympanic temperature during legs immersion in warm water. Seven Vietnamese and seven Japanese (who had lived in Hanoi for 1-2 years) participated in the experiments, which were performed in April, 2001 in Hanoi (Vietnam). It was found that the tympanic temperature at which subjects started to sweat in the forearm was significantly higher in Vietnamese than in Japanese.

Observations on normal body temperatures in Vietnamese and Japanese in Vietnam.

The observations described in this paper were made during a study of the effects of tropical climate upon Vietnamese and Japanese. We measured rectal and skin temperatures every 10 min for 26 hrs in 6 Vietnamese and 6 Japanese. The experiments have been conducted for 2 hot months, June and July 1999 and 2000 in Hanoi, Vietnam.