NOCTURNAL HEART RATE AND CARDIAC REPOLARIZATION IN LOWLANDERS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AT HIGH ALTITUDE: DATA FROM A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL OF NOCTURNAL OXYGEN THERAPY

Nocturnal Heart Rate and Cardiac Repolarization in Lowlanders With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at High Altitude: Data From a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with cardiovascular disease.We investigated whether Powder Exfoliator sleeping at altitude increases nocturnal heart rate (HR) and other markers of cardiovascular risk or arrhythmias in lowlanders with COPD and whether this can be prevented by nocturnal oxygen therapy (NOT).Meth

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Description of Bothriurus mistral n. sp., the highest-dwelling Bothriurus from the western Andes (Scorpiones, Bothriuridae), using multiple morphometric approaches.

We describe Bothriurus mistral n.sp.(Scorpiones, Bothriuridae) from the Chilean north-central Andes of the Coquimbo Region.This is the highest elevational discovery for Bothriurus in the western slopes of the Andes.This species was collected in the Estero Derecho Private Protected Area and Natural Sanctuary as Earpieces part of the First National B

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SOUTH AFRICA AT WAR, 1912-1982

The end of the Second Anglo-Boer War also put an end to the commando system that had been the core of military strength in South Africa.With the formation of the Union in 1910 it BLACK RICE RAMEN was realized that South Africa will have to provide its own defence.It was to be no easy task; seeing that Collections the English and Afrikaans-speaking

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