Physiological responses to graded acute normobaric hypoxia using an intermittent walking protocol

Wilderness and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 252-260

  Richardson, Alan ^a   Twomey, Rosie ^a   Watt, Peter ^a   Maxwell, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Hypoxia; Intermittent exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORE TEMPERATURE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; INTERMITTENT WALKING PROTOCOL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; QUESTIONNAIRE; WALKING;

EID: 57749210404     PISSN: 10806032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1580/07-WEME-OR-143.1     Document Type: Article

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