Effects of acute hypoxia at moderate altitude on stroke volume and cardiac output during exercise

International Heart Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 170-175

  Fukuda, Taira ^a   Maegawa, Taketeru ^b   Matsumoto, Akihiro ^c,d   Komatsu, Yutaka ^b   Nakajima, Toshiaki ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^a   Kawahara, Takashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SPORTS SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c JAPAN WOMEN'S COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac output; Exercise testing; Normobaric hypoxia; Oxygen uptake

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; IMPEDANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACUTE DISEASE; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; ENDURANCE; HEART RATE; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; EXERCISE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 77954988196     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.51.170     Document Type: Article

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