The distribution of ventilation, diffusion, and blood flow in obese patients with normal and abnormal blood gases

Am Rev Respir Dis. 1973 Oct;108(4):819-30. doi: 10.1164/arrd.1973.108.4.819.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Anthropometry
  • Carbon Dioxide / blood*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypercapnia / etiology
  • Hypoxia / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Obesity / complications
  • Obesity / physiopathology*
  • Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / physiopathology
  • Oxygen / blood*
  • Pulmonary Circulation*
  • Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity*
  • Respiration*

Substances

  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Oxygen