Arterial oxygen saturation and hemoglobin mass in postmenopausal untrained and trained altitude residents

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 296-306

  Cristancho, Edgar ^a,c   Reyes, Orlando ^b   Serrato, Mauricio ^b   Mora, María Mercedes ^c   Rojas, Joel Alberto ^c   Robinson, Yohan ^a   Böning, Dieter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Centro de Servicios Biomedicos   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Aging; Blood volume; Erythropoietin; Peak oxygen uptake

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; SEX HORMONE; TRANSFERRIN RECEPTOR;

ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULOCYTE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE; BLOOD VOLUME; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RETICULOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 37249091621     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2007.8406     Document Type: Article

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