Infrared Thermography for Estimating Supraclavicular Skin Temperature and BAT Activity in Humans: A Systematic Review
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Jiménez Pavón, David; Corral Pérez, Juan; Sánchez Infantes, David; Villarroya, Francesc; Ruiz Ruiz, Jonatan; Martínez Téllez, Borja ManuelEditorial
Wiley
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2019Referencia bibliográfica
Jimenez‐Pavon, D., Corral‐Perez, J., Sánchez‐Infantes, D., Villarroya, F., Ruiz, J. R., & Martinez‐Tellez, B. (2019). Infrared Thermography for Estimating Supraclavicular Skin Temperature and BAT Activity in Humans: A Systematic Review. Obesity.
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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).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.