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Table 3 Cardiovascular, metabolic, thermoregulatory and subjective data upon termination of exercise across experimental conditions

From: The impact of submaximal exercise during heat and/or hypoxia on the cardiovascular and monocyte HSP72 responses to subsequent (post 24 h) exercise in hypoxia

  Normoxia Heat Hypoxia Combined
Cardiovascular     
 HR (beats · min-1) 138 ± 17 168 ± 15*,** 156 ± 13* 174 ± 5*,**
 SpO2 (%) 96 ± 2 95 ± 1 83 ± 1*,*** 83 ± 1*,***
 Cardiac output (L · min-1) 16.9 ± 2.5 17.6 ± 2.8 17.3 ± 2.5 17.4 ± 3.2
 Stroke volume (mL · beat-1) 126 ± 33 106 ± 18 112 ± 23 101 ± 16
a v ¯ O 2 difference 10.95 ± 2 11.96 ± 1 11.97 ± 1.5 11.7 ± 1.2
 Plasma volume change (%) -2.0 ± 5.8 -3.2 ± 10 -1.7 ± 7.3 -2.4 ± 5.4
Metabolic     
 VO2 (L · min-1) 1.98 ± 0.37 2.09 ± 0.33 2.06 ± 0.42 2.02 ± 0.49
 VCO2 (L · min-1) 1.71 ± 0.34 1.80 ± 0.29 1.91 ± 0.36 1.83 ± 0.35
 RER 0.87 ± 0.09 0.86 ± 0.06 0.93 ± 0.07*,*** 0.92 ± 0.09*,***
V E STPD (L · min-1) 40.5 ± 5.90 46.4 ± 9.30* 53.0 ± 12.2* 52.2 ± 10.70*
V E BTPS (L · min-1) 49.6 ± 7.30 56.9 ± 11.8* 63.3 ± 14.1* 62.1 ± 9.90*
Thermoregulatory     
T core (°C) 37.8 ± 0.3 38.7 ± 0.5*,** 38.0 ± 0.3 38.6 ± 0.4*,**
T skin (°C) 31.4 ± 2.0 36.2 ± 0.9*,** 32.1 ± 1.3 35.8 ± 1.0*,**
T body (°C) 36.5 ± 0.6 38.1 ± 0.4*,** 36.9 ± 0.3 38.1 ± 0.4*,**
 Sweat rate (L · min-1) 0.48 ± 0.2 1.05 ± 0.2*,** 0.46 ± 0.2 0.91 ± 0.2*,**
 PSI (AU) 4.5 ± 0.9 7.6 ± 1.5*,** 5.2 ± 0.7 7.6 ± 1.1*,**
Perceptual     
 RPE (AU) 14 ± 2 17 ± 2* 17 ± 2* 17 ± 2*
 TS (AU) 5 ± 1 7 ± 1 6 ± 1 7 ± 1
  1. *Significantly different from NORM; **significantly different from HYP; ***significantly different from HEAT (p < 0.05).