Training in normobaric hypoxia and its effects on acute mountain sickness after rapid ascent to 4559m

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-25

  Schommer, Kai ^a   Wiesegart, Neele ^a   Menold, Elmar ^a   Haas, Ute ^b   Lahr, Katrin ^b   Buhl, Hermann ^b   Bärtsch, Peter ^a   Dehnert, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Höhenbalance AG Köln   (Germany)

Author keywords

high altitude; hypoxic exposure; intermittent hypoxic training; normobaric hypoxia; ventilatory acclimatization

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; IBUPROFEN; IRON; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PARACETAMOL; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON THERAPY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WORKLOAD; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANOXIA; BLOOD; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; METHODOLOGY; OXIMETRY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; OXIMETRY; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING;

EID: 77954695609     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1019     Document Type: Article

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