Since the mid 1800s, body temperature has always been the starting point for determining if someone has infection or inflammation. People can recite in their sleep that the average body temperature for humans should be 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. However, new studies have proven that the average body temperature is very personal, and has many different factors such as the time of day, height, and weight. Researchers have also begun studying how temperature can be used to determine medical conditions. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at how different medical conditions and infections affect body temperature, and how scientists can use this to make accurate diagnosis.
Researchers discovered that temperatures in different face regions are associated with various chronic illnesses, such as diabetes and high blood pressure. These temperature differences are not easily detected by the human touch or normal thermometers; they are identified using specific AI-derived spatial temperature patterns that require a thermal camera and a data-trained model.
The team of researchers surveyed thousands of participants, and then used the data to train an AI model for thermal age. They identified several key facial regions where the temperatures were significantly related to age and health, including the nose, eyes and cheeks. Changes in temperature in these areas across ages implies a certain metabolic function may have gone awry. For example, people with metabolic disorders such as diabetes and fatty liver disease had faster thermal aging. They tended to have higher eye area temperatures than their healthy counterparts of the same age. People with elevated blood pressure also had higher cheek temperatures.
The researchers then cross checked their hypotheses by analyzing blood samples. The samples revealed that the increase in temperatures around the eyes and cheeks was mainly because of an increase in cellular activities related to inflammation, such as repairing damaged DNAs and fighting infections. The increase in these activities led to a rise in temperatures in certain facial regions.
There are so many possibilities and positive sides to having a way to diagnose patients with temperature. It’s a simple and noninvasive approach for the early detection of diseases. It has the potential to promote healthy aging and help people live disease free. It could also have the potential to become more widespread and allow people to have a better grasp of their own health.
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