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John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53705
Twenty-eight
healthy women (ages 27.2 ± 6.4 yr) with widely varying fitness
levels [maximal O2
consumption (
O2 max),
31-70 ml · kg
1 · min
1]
first completed a progressive incremental treadmill test to
O2 max (total
duration, 13.3 ± 1.4 min; 97 ± 37 s at maximal workload), rested for 20 min, and then completed a constant-load treadmill test at maximal workload (total duration, 143 ± 31 s). At
the termination of the progressive test, 6 subjects had maintained arterial PO2
(PaO2) near resting levels, whereas 22 subjects showed a >10 Torr decrease in
PaO2 [78.0 ± 7.2 Torr, arterial O2 saturation
(SaO2), 91.6 ± 2.4%], and
alveolar-arterial O2 difference (A-aDO2,
39.2 ± 7.4 Torr). During the subsequent constant-load test, all
subjects, regardless of their degree of exercise-induced arterial
hypoxemia (EIAH) during the progressive test, showed a nearly identical
effect of a narrowed
A-aDO2
(
4.8 ± 3.8 Torr) and an increase in
PaO2 (+5.9 ± 4.3 Torr) and
SaO2 (+1.6 ± 1.7%) compared with at
the end point of the progressive test. Therefore, EIAH during maximal
exercise was lessened, not enhanced, by prior exercise, consistent with
the hypothesis that EIAH is not caused by a mechanism
which persists after the initial exercise period and is aggravated by
subsequent exercise, as might be expected of exercise-induced
structural alterations at the alveolar-capillary interface. Rather,
these findings in habitually active young women point to a functionally
based mechanism for EIAH that is present only during the exercise
period.
maximal exercise; diffusion; repeat exercise effects
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