Gender and pulmonary gas exchange during exercise.
Relative to body size, women have a lower diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, smaller airway diameter, and smaller lung volumes than men. The effect that these differences have on gas exchange during exercise is incompletely understood. Women may have a larger alveolar-arterial PO(2) difference that may be compensated for, in part, by increased alveolar ventilation.
Hopkins
Susan R
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Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. shopkins@ucsd.edu
Harms
Craig A
CA
D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange / Q000502:physiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States