title: Nocturnal oxygen saturation in normal and asthmatic children.
abstract: At sea level, it appears that oxygen desaturation does not occur in normal children at night and that the desaturation that occurs in moderately severe asthmatic children with therapeutic levels of theophylline does not approach dangerously low levels.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000531:Altitude; D001249:Asthma / Q000097:blood*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010092:Oximetry / Q000379:methods; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood*; D012890:Sleep; D013997:Time Factors; D014797:Vital Capacity
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen