The relationship between perinatl hypoxia and sleep-disordered breathing in preclinical chronic mountain sickness
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2010-08-08Autor
Julian, Colleen Glyde
Vargas, Enrique
Dávila, R Daniela
Salinas Salmón, Carlos E
Rodríguez, A
Gonzales, Marcelino
Moore, Lorna G
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Introduction: Chronic intermittent hypoxia due to sleepdisordered breathing is implicated as a potential etiological
factor for chronic mountain sickness (CMS). Whether sleepdisordered breathing precedes or results from CMS is not
known. Likewise, factors responsible for sleep-disordered breathing in CMS are not well understood. Based on our
preliminary data that perinatal hypoxia increases susceptibility to excessive erythrocytosis (EE, Hb 18.3 g/dL), a
preclinical phase of CMS, we sought to determine whether
respiratory characteristics during wakefulness or sleep differ
between EE subjects and controls and, if so, to determine the
relationship of this variation with perinatal hypoxia.