Abstract:To explore the incidence of hypothermia before induction of anesthesia and its influencing factors. Methods In total, 622 patients treated in our hospital from June 2015 to January 2016 were involved in the study. They were divided into low temperature group (118 cases, T < 36℃) and normal body temperature group (504 cases) according to their body temperature before induction of anesthesia. The gender, age, height, weight, BMI, AR and LBW of the two groups were carefully collected, and univariate and multivariate logistic analyses were used to look for the influencing factors of hypothermia before induction of anesthesia. Results Compared to the normal temperature group, the age was older, the percentage of female patients and LBW were higher but the weight and BMI were lower in the low temperature group (p < 0.05). According to univariate logistic analysis, male, age, BMI and LBW were associated with hypothermia before anesthesia induction. On this bases, multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that female (OR= 1.353) and older age (OR= 1.151) were the independent influencing factors of hypothermia before induction of anesthesia (p < 0.05). A further subgroup analysis of female patients in thehypothermia group showed that the body temperature had a negative correlation with age ( p< 0.05). What's more, chi-square test showed that female patients over the age of 45 had higher incidence of hypothermia before induction of anesthesia (p < 0.05). Conclusions Female and age are the independent risk factors of hypothermia before induction of anesthesia, and the incidence significantly increases in climacteric women. Therefore, measures should be taken to prevent hypothermia before induction of anesthesia, especially in climacteric women and elder patients.