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The Cost to the Central Nervous System of Climbing to Extremely High Altitude
NEJM 321:1714-1719, 1989,, Hornbein,T.F.,et al, 1989
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Article Abstract
We conclude that persons with a more vigorous ventilatory response to hypoxia have more residual neurobehavioral impairment after returning to lower elevations.This finding may be explained by poorer oxygenation of the brain despite greater ventilation,perhaps because of a decrease in cerebral blood flow caused by hypocapnia that more than offsets the increase in arterial oxygen saturation.
 
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