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UBC-Nepal Expedition: Cerebrovascular responses to exercise in Sherpa children residing at high altitude

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Rieger, Mathew
Nowak-Fluck, Daniela
Morris, Laura
Niroula, Shailesh
Sherpa, Kami
Tallon, Christine
Stembridge, Mike
Ainslie, Philip
McManus, Ali
Date
2019-01-16
Acceptance date
2018-10-23
Type
Article
Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
ISSN
1557-8682
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Abstract
Understanding the process of successful adaptation to high altitude provides valuable insight into the pathogenesis of conditions associated with impaired oxygen uptake and utilization. Prepubertal children residing at low altitude show a reduced cerebrovascular response to exercise in comparison to adults, and a transient uncoupling of cerebral blood flow to changes in the partial pressure of end-tidal CO2 (PETCO2); however, little is known about the cerebrovascular response to exercise in high-altitude native children. We sought to compare the cerebral hemodynamic response to acute exercise between prepubertal children residing at high and low altitude. Prepubertal children (n=32; 17 female) of Sherpa descent (SC) at high altitude (3800m, Nepal) and maturational-matched (n=32; 20 female) children (LLC) residing at low altitude (342m, Canada). Ventilation, peripheral oxygenation (SpO2), PETCO2, and blood velocity in the middle and posterior cerebral arteries (MCAv and PCAv) were continuously measured during a graded cycling exercise test to exhaustion. At baseline, PETCO2 (-19±4mmHg, P<0.001), SpO2 (-6.0±2.1%, P<0.001), MCAv (-12±5%, P=0.02) and PCAv (-12±6%, P=0.04) were lower in SC when compared with LLC. Despite this, the relative change in MCAv and PCAv during exercise was similar between the two groups (P=0.99). Linear regression analysis demonstrated a positive relationship between changes in PETCO2 with MCAv in SC (r2 = 0.13, P>0.001), but not in LLC (r2=0.03, P=0.10). Our findings demonstrate a similar increase in intra-cranial perfusion during exercise in prepubertal SC, despite differential baseline values and changes in PETCO2 and SpO2.
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High Altitude Medicine and Biology;
Citation
Rieger, M.G., Nowak-Flück, D., Morris, L.E., Niroula, S., Sherpa, K.T., Tallon, C.M., Stembridge, M., Ainslie, P.N. and McManus, A. (2019) 'UBC-Nepal Expedition: Intra-cranial hemodynamic response to exercise in Sherpa children residing at high altitude', High Altitude Medicine and Biology. DOI: 10.1089/ham.2018.0083.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10369/10246
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2018.0083
Description
Article published in High Altitude Medicine and Biology on 16 January 2019 (online), available at: https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2018.0083. The author’s post-print will be made available in this repository from 16 January 2020.
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Sponsorship
This research was supported by a National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant (2015–03647, A.M.M.; 20150821–01, P.N.A.), Canadian Research Chair in Cerebrovascular Physiology (950–230970; P.N.A.), and the Swiss National Science Foundation (P2ZHP3_158576; D.N.-F.).
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