Changes in cardiac autonomic activity during a passive 8 hour acute exposure to 5500m normobaric hypoxia are not related to the development of acute mountain sickness

International Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 186-191

  Wille, M ^a   Mairer, K ^a   Gatterer, H ^a   Philippe, M ^a   Faulhaber, M ^a   Burtscher, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; autonomic nervous system; heart rate variability; normobaric hypoxia; spectral analysis; sympathetic activity

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857791890     PISSN: 01724622     EISSN: 14393964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1291325     Document Type: Article

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