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Exertional heatstroke (EHS) is a sporadic event affecting mainly athletes and soldiers who were previously considered healthy. 6 Hence, EHS is a consequence of an underlying inherent or acquired cause that compromises the ability to sustain exercise-heat stress. 11 While the ability to tolerate exercise-heat stress is within a wide range of interindividual variability, those individuals who experience an earlier and greater rise in core body temperature (T c ) are defined as “heat intolerant” and are possibly prone to EHS. 8 A temporarily