![]() ![]() We conclude that the most important patient factors remain site of measurement and patient’s age. ![]() Compared with the currently established reference point for normothermia of 36.8☌, our means are slightly lower but the difference likely has no physiological importance. There was only insignificant gender difference. Older adults (age ≥60) had lower temperature than younger adults (age <60) by 0.23☌, on average. This comprised 9227 measurement sites from 7636 subjects. Thirty-six articles met the inclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) the paper presented data on measured normal body temperature of healthy human subjects ages 18 and older, (2) a prospective design was used, and (3) the paper was written in or translated into the English language. ![]() The references of the identified manuscripts were then manually searched. PubMed was searched from 1935 to December 2017 with a variety of search phrases among article titles. ![]()
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