Hypoxic Ventilatory Response Paper

When people habituated to low altitudes come across high altitudes, they can experience changes in their blood and cardiovascular function due to acclimatization. As there is a lower pressure at higher altitudes, it becomes difficult to inhale oxygen into the body and so, the human body begins to acclimatize to the high altitude environment. For instance,as seen in Figure 1, in adjusting to higher altitudes, ventilation adaptations would make it easier to inhale a higher saturation of oxygen into lungs (San et al., 2013; Cu , 1999). This is done by increasing the depth and rate of breathing,which increases alveolar ventilation (San et all., 2013). It is attained by hypoxic ventilatory response
(HVR) which is an increase in the ventilation after