About 28 healthy subjects are randomized to 1 hour/day of coldprovocation or to the best of ability to avoid feeling cold, for 6 weeks. Basal metabolic rate and magnetic resonance (for determination of brown adipose tissue volume) imaging are performed before and after the study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
28
Faculty of Health Science, Linköping
Linköping, Sweden
Brown Adipose Tissue, Absolute Volume
Sub-clavicular brown adipose tissue volume by magnetic resonance imaging (liters)
Time frame: Baseline and 6 week
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