Everest, they showed regular oxygen uptake, greater ventilation, more brisk hypoxic ventilatory responses, larger lung volumes, greater diffusing capacities, constant body weight and a better quality of sleep, compared to other people from the lowland.
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Thus, the higher the diffusing capacity D _ L, the more gas will be transferred into the lung per unit time for a given gradient in partial pressure ( or concentration ) of the gas.
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In respiratory physiology, the diffusing capacity has a long history of great utility, representing conductance of gas across the alveolar-capillary membrane and also takes into account factors affecting the behaviour of a given gas with hemoglobin.
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Diffusing capacity of the lung ( DLCO ) tests are usually normal; people with early-stage BO are more likely to have normal DLCO . Spirometry tests usually show fixed airway obstructions and sometimes restriction, where the lungs can't expand fully.
