@misc{10481/58012,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/58012},
abstract = {Objective: Brown adipose tissue (BAT) is a thermogenic tissue with potential as a therapeutic target in the
treatment of obesity and related metabolic disorders. The most used technique for quantifying human BAT
activity is the measurement of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake via a positron emission tomography/computed
tomography scan following exposure to cold. However, several studies have indicated the measurement of
the supraclavicular skin temperature (SST) by infrared thermography (IRT) to be a less invasive alternative.
This work reviews the state of the art of this latter method as a means of determining BAT activity in humans.
Methods: The data sources for this review were PubMed, Web of Science, and EBSCOhost (SPORTdiscus),
and eligible studies were those conducted in humans.
Results: In most studies in which participants were first cooled, an increase in IRT-measured SST was
noted. However, only 5 of 24 such studies also involved a nuclear technique that confirmed increased activity
in BAT, and only 2 took into account the thickness of the fat layer when measuring SST by IRT.
Conclusions: More work is needed to understand the involvement of tissues other than BAT in determining IRTmeasured
SST; at present, IRT cannot determine whether any increase in SST is due to increased BAT activity.},
organization = {This study was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) via the Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria del Instituto de
Salud Carlos III (PI13/01393), Retos de la Sociedad (DEP2016-79512-R) and European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Fundación Iberoamericana de Nutrición
(FINUT), the Redes Temáticas de Investigación Cooperativa RETIC (Red SAMID RD16/0022), the AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation, the University of Granada Plan Propio
de Investigación 2016 Excellence actions: Unit of Excellence on Exercise and Health (UCEES), and Plan Propio de Investigación 2018 and the Junta de Andalucía, Consejería
de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidades (ERDF: SOMM17/6107/UGR). DSI is an Investigator of the Miguel Servet Fund from Carlos III National Institute of Health, Spain
(CP15/00106). DJP is supported by grants from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation-MINECO (RYC-2014-16938), MINECO/European Fund for Regional
Development (FEDER) (DEP2016-76123-R), the Government of Andalusia, the Integrated Territorial Initiative 2014-2020 for the Province of Cádiz (PI-0002-2017), the European
Union's ERASMUS+SPORT program (Grant Agreement 603121-EPP-1-2018-1-ES-SPO-SCP), and the EXERNET Research Network on Exercise and Health in Special
Populations (DEP2005-00046/ACTI).},
publisher = {Wiley},
title = {Infrared Thermography for Estimating Supraclavicular Skin Temperature and BAT Activity in Humans: A Systematic Review},
doi = {10.1002/oby.22635},
author = {Jiménez Pavón, David and Corral Pérez, Juan and Sánchez Infantes, David and Villarroya, Francesc and Ruiz Ruiz, Jonatan and Martínez Téllez, Borja Manuel},
}