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J Appl Physiol 67: 1198-1207, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 3 1198-1207, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Breathing during sleep with mild hypoxia

K. Chin, M. Ohi, M. Hirai, T. Kuriyama, Y. Sagawa and K. Kuno
Department of Clinical Pulmonary Physiology, Kyoto University, Japan.

To investigate ventilatory response to mild hypoxia during non-rapid-eye-movement sleep, we administered approximately 16% O2 (which corresponds to concentrations found in commercial high altitude air craft) to 12 normal subjects by using a Venturi mask, which did not alter the breathing pattern during this study. Under mild hypoxia, inspiratory minute ventilation during sleep showed an initial rapid increase (P less than 0.001) but then declined significantly (P less than 0.001) and stabilized. Stable levels differed among individuals and, compared with those measured before hypoxia, were significantly lower in some subjects, higher in one, and essentially unchanged in the others. The initial rapid increase in minute ventilation after mild hypoxia during sleep correlated with the respective values of hypoxic ventilatory response during the awake state (P less than 0.01), but the final lowered levels did not. We conclude that the ventilatory response after mild hypoxia during sleep is biphasic and hypoxic depression exerts considerable influence on ventilation under mild hypoxia during sleep. So we should take hypoxic depression into consideration to evaluate the response to hypoxia during sleep.


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