High Altitude and the Central Nervous System
- 21 June 1990
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 322 (25), 1821-1822
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199006213222516
Abstract
Hornbein et al. (Dec. 21 issue) 1 state that increased oxygen delivery to muscle during exercise is responsible for the finding that "persons with a high hypoxic ventilatory response, who appear more impaired after exposure to extremely high altitude, are the ones who seem to perform best physically at great heights."2 , 3 This observation is contradicted by their lack of correlation of maximal oxygen uptake with hypoxic ventilatory response.Keywords
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