Although we evaluated multiple physiological response variables, there was little literature to assist in developing rational predictions.
In critically ill patients, thermoregulatory processes are affected by multiple external and physiological variables, including vasoactive medications, sedation, mechanical ventilation and underlying disease processes [ 27].
Thus, a profile or pattern of multiple physiological, metabolic and haematological variables may provide the most effective marker of altered homeostasis to allow an assessment of an animal's response to transport.
Multicenter collaborations, such as BrainIT (Brain monitoring with Information Technology collaborative network) [ 112], have demonstrated that recording of many physiological variables across multiple patients is feasible and can provide new clinical insights [ 113].
Multiple regression procedures indicated that the model comprising anthropometric and physiological variables combined best predicts performance (R2 = 0.85), followed by models that comprised physiological (R2 = 0.80) and anthropometric (R2 = 0.76) variables alone.
Simple and multiple linear regression analyses were used to investigate the relationships between demographics, physiological variables, symptoms, physical function, and subjective health status.
T-tests are also reported for physiological variables for illustrative purposes, with p-values uncorrected for use of multiple comparisons.
Multiple regression analysis and analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) were used to test the effect of various physiological variables on oxygenation indices.
We are programmed through multiple physiological mechanisms to protect our weight.
