Effects of Hyperoxia on Ventilatory Limitation During Exercise in Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Abstract
We studied interrelationships between exercise endurance, ventilatory demand, operational lung volumes, and dyspnea during acute hyperoxia in ventilatory-limited patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Eleven patients with COPD (FEV(1.0) = 31 +/- 3% predicted, mean +/- SEM) and chronic respiratory failure (Pa(O(2)) 52 +/- 2 mm Hg, Pa(CO(2 ))48 +/- 2 mm Hg) breathed room air (RA) or 60% O(2) during two cycle exercise tests at 50% of their maximal exercise capacity, in randomized order. Endurance time (T(lim)), dyspnea intensity (Borg Scale), ventilation (V E), breathing pattern, dynamic inspiratory capacity (IC(dyn)), and gas exchange were compared. Pa(O(2)) at end-exercise was 46 +/- 3 and 245 +/- 10 mm Hg during RA and O(2), respectively. During O(2), T(lim) increased 4.7 +/- 1.4 min (p < 0.001); slopes of Borg, V E, V CO(2), and lactate over time fell (p < 0.05); slopes of Borg-V E, V E-V CO(2), V E-lactate were unchanged. At a standardized time near end-exercise, O(2) reduced dyspnea 2.0 +/- 0.5 Borg units, V CO(2) 0.06 +/- 0.03 L/min, V E 2.8 +/- 1.0 L/min, and breathing frequency 4.4 +/- 1.1 breaths/min (p < 0.05 each). IC(dyn) and inspiratory reserve volume (IRV) increased throughout exercise with O(2) (p < 0.05). Increased IC(dyn) was explained by the combination of increased resting IRV and decreased exercise breathing frequency (r(2) = 0.83, p < 0.0005). In conclusion, improved exercise endurance during hyperoxia was explained, in part, by a combination of reduced ventilatory demand, improved operational lung volumes, and dyspnea alleviation.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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