Cerebral water and ion balance remains stable when humans are exposed to acute hypoxic exercise

High Altitude Medicine & Biology
Magnus B AvnstorpNikolai Nordsborg

Abstract

Intense physical activity increases the prevalence of acute mountain sickness (AMS) that can occur within 10 h after ascent to altitudes above 1500 m and is likely related to development of cerebral edema. This study evaluated whether disturbed cerebral water and ion homeostasis can be detected when intense exercise is carried out in hypoxia and monitored the influence of muscle metabolism for changes in arterial variables. On two separate days, in random order, 30 min cycling exercise was performed in either hypoxia (10% O2) or normoxia at an intensity that was exhaustive in the hypoxic trial (∼120 W; n=9). Exercise in hypoxia affected muscle metabolism, as evidenced by higher (p<0.05) leg lactate release at 7.5 min and a continuous decline in arterial pH (p<0.001) that was not observed in normoxia. Middle cerebral artery flow velocity increased (p<0.01) with exercise under both circumstances. No cerebral net exchange of Na(+) or K(+) was evident. Likewise, no significant net-exchange of water over the brain was demonstrated and the arterial and jugular venous hemoglobin concentrations were similar. Challenging exercise in hypoxia for 30 min affected muscle metabolism and increased an index of cerebral blood flow, but cerebral...Continue Reading

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