Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 70, Issue 2 919-927, Copyright © 1991 by American Physiological Society

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Increased dependence on blood glucose after acclimatization to 4,300 m

G. A. Brooks, G. E. Butterfield, R. R. Wolfe, B. M. Groves, R. S. Mazzeo, J. R. Sutton, E. E. Wolfel and J. T. Reeves
University of California, Berkeley 94720.

To evaluate the hypothesis that altitude exposure and acclimatization result in increased dependency on blood glucose as a fuel, seven healthy males (23 +/- 2 yr, 72.2 +/- 1.6 kg, mean +/- SE) on a controlled diet were studied in the postabsorptive condition at sea level (SL), on acute altitude exposure to 4,300 m (AA), and after 3 wk of chronic altitude exposure to 4,300 m (CA). Subjects received a primed continuous infusion of [6,6-2D]glucose and rested for a minimum of 90 min, followed immediately by 45 min of exercise at 101 +/- 3 W, which elicited 51.1 +/- 1% of the SL maximal O2 consumption (VO2 max; 65 +/- 2% of altitude VO2 max). At SL, resting arterial glucose concentration was 82.4 +/- 3.2 mg/dl and rose significantly to 91.2 +/- 3.2 mg/dl during exercise. Resting glucose appearance rate (Ra) was 1.79 +/- 0.02 mg.kg-1.min-1; this increased significantly during exercise at SL to 3.71 +/- 0.08 mg.kg-1.min-1. On AA, resting arterial glucose concentration (85.8 +/- 4.1 mg/dl) was not different from sea level, but Ra (2.11 +/- 0.14 mg.kg-1.min-1) rose significantly. During exercise on AA, glucose concentration rose to levels seen at SL (91.4 +/- 3.0 mg/dl), but Ra increased more than at SL (to 4.85 +/- 0.15 mg.kg-1.min-1; P less than 0.05). Resting arterial glucose was significantly depressed with CA (70.8 +/- 3.8 mg/dl), but resting Ra increased to 3.59 +/- 0.08 mg.kg-1.min-1, significantly exceeding SL and AA values.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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