Carbohydrate ingestion improves oxygen delivery in acute hypoxia

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-62

  Golja, Petra ^a   Flander, Polona ^a   Klemenc, Matjaž ^b   Maver, Jerica ^b   Princi, Tanja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^b General Hospital Dr Franc Derganc   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbohydrates; High altitude; Hypoxia; Oxygen delivery; Sucrose

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN; SUCROSE; WATER;

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE INTAKE; CARBON DIOXIDE BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LIPID METABOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN METABOLISM;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PULMONARY VENTILATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SUCROSE;

EID: 40549091942     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1021     Document Type: Article

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