Room oxygen enrichment improves sleep and subsequent day-time performance at high altitude

Respiration Physiology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 247-258

  Luks, Andrew M ^a   Van Melick, Harm ^a   Batarse, Rodolfo R ^a   Powell, Frank L ^a,c   Grant, Igor ^b   West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude, sleep disordered breathing; Control of breathing, high altitude, sleep; Hypoxia, high altitude; Mammals, humans; Sleep, disordered breathing, high altitude, O2 enriched environment

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; AMBIENT AIR; APNEA; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP; WELLBEING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SLEEP;

EID: 0032171006     PISSN: 00345687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-5687(98)00068-1     Document Type: Article

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