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Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?

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The Relationship Between Altitude and Acclimatization

There's been some work by colleagues of mine, Katie Ivy and Graham Scott that have shown that breathing increases pretty linearly with decreasing partial pressures of oxygen. And then we've shown that red blood cells and hemoglobin concentrations increase steadily with decreasing pressure as well. So in general, I think it's pretty clear that yes, as you move up in altitude, the acclimatization responses are proportional to that decrease in partial pressure.

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