Are Asians The Sweatiest 'Race'?

Factual Questions
1

Is it true that people of Asian decent are several times more likely to suffer from excessive sweating (i.e. beyond what is needed for thermoregulation) than people from other walks of life?

If so, how is “excessive” defined? Is it self-reported, or clinically measured?

Thanks.

2

I trust you’re looking for some kind of factual answer to this, so am moving it to GQ.

twickster, Cafe Society mod

3

Yes, sorry about that.

4

Cecil has a column on this: Do Chinese lack sweat glands in their armpits? However, it addresses mostly apocrine sweat glands, not the eccrine glands that produce most of the moisture.

5

http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/hyperhidrosis

6

Thanks.

From that link:

20 times more frequently? Really? I wonder if the Japanese are just more likely to complain to their doctors about normal amounts of sweat.

7

Possible. It could also be a side effect of moving to a Western diet or just that they have (more prevalent) honest to gosh hyperhidrosis.