Effect of Short-Term Acclimatization to High Altitude on Sleep and Nocturnal Breathing | Zendy

Yvonne NussbaumerOchsner | Zendy; Justyna Ursprung | Zendy; Christoph Siebenmann | Zendy; Marco Maggiorini | Zendy; Konrad E. Bloch | Zendy

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Effect of Short-Term Acclimatization to High Altitude on Sleep and Nocturnal Breathing

Author(s) -

Yvonne NussbaumerOchsner,

Justyna Ursprung,

Christoph Siebenmann,

Marco Maggiorini,

Konrad E. Bloch

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

sleep

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.222

H-Index - 207

eISSN - 1550-9109

pISSN - 0161-8105

DOI - 10.5665/sleep.1708

Subject(s) - acclimatization , nocturnal , effects of high altitude on humans , altitude (triangle) , sleep (system call) , breathing , medicine , periodic breathing , anesthesia , apnea , biology , anatomy , geometry , mathematics , computer science , operating system , botany

Objective physiologic data on sleep and nocturnal breathing at initial exposure and during acclimatization to high altitude are scant. We tested the hypothesis that acute exposure to high altitude induces quantitative and qualitative changes in sleep and that these changes are partially reversed with acclimatization.

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