Caffeine stimulates ventilation in athletes with exercise-induced hypoxemia

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1080-1086

  Chapman, Robert F ^a   Stager, Joel M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arterial oxyhemoglobin saturation; Hypercapnic ventilatory response; Hypoxic ventilatory response; Pulmonary diffusion limitations

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; PLACEBO; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; ADULT; ANOXIA; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE TEST; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; ANOXIA; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; EXERCISE TEST; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PULMONARY VENTILATION;

EID: 54049100033     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181667421     Document Type: Article

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