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Table 7 Group 2 (Investigators) (n = 24) - Testing performed at each Laboratory

From: Design and conduct of Caudwell Xtreme Everest: an observational cohort study of variation in human adaptation to progressive environmental hypoxia

 

Archway

(75 m)

Kathmandu

(1300 m)

Namche

(3500 m)

Pheriche

(4280 m)

EBC (I)

(5300 m)

EBC (II)

(5300 m)

Camp 2

(6400 m)

South Col

(7950 m)

Subjects at laboratory

24

24

24

24

24

23

14

12

CORE STUDIES

        

Daily diary

24

24

24

24

24

23

14

5

CPX Ramp (+muscle and brain NIRS)[17]

24

24

22

24

23

22

14

5

CPX ME

24

24

23

n/a

24

23

14

n/a

Spirometry

24

24

24

23

23

23

14

6

Venesection

24

24

24

24

24

23

14

n/a

Neurocognitive

21

21 (on return)

21

21

21

n/a

13

6

Pupillometry

24

24

24

20

24

23

14

0

Cranial measurement

24

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Retinal Photography

24

n/a

n/a

n/a

24

23

n/a

n/a

Plasma biomarkers

24

24

24

24

24

23

n/a

n/a

ADDITIONAL STUDIES

Arterial Blood Gases[25]

10

n/a

n/a

n/a

9

n/a

9

n/a

Gastric Tonometry

10

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

9

n/a

n/a

Cardiac Output

10

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

9

n/a

n/a

Microcirculation[24]

24

n/a

24

n/a

24

23

14

4

Weight & Body comp

24

24

24

24

24

23

13

n/a

Muscle Biopsy

20

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

18

n/a

n/a

ECG

19

19

19

19

19

19

n/a

n/a

Oxygen circuit

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

5

n/a

Smell and taste

24

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

24

n/a

n/a

Thromboelastography

17

n/a

n/a

17

n/a

14

n/a

n/a

Cerebral Doppler

24

24

24

24

24

24

13

5

Saccadometry

22

22

22

22

22

22

12

n/a

Cardiac MRI and 31P-MRS

2

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Skeletal Muscle MRI and 31P-MRS

7

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

MR Brain structural and volumetric studies

15

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a