Improvement in hypoxemia at 4600 meters of simulated altitude with carbohydrate ingestion

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 874-878

  Lawless, Nancy P ^a,b   Dillard, Thomas A ^a   Torrington, Kenneth G ^a   Davis, H Quigg ^a   Kamimori, Gary ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Altitude; Carbohydrate; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXEMIA; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXEMIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032716174     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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