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Table 2.

Effect of chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia on the heart weight of developing rats

Treatment groups^a	Heart weight parameters
Treatment groups^a	VW/BW (g/kg)	RVW/BW (g/kg)	RVW/(LVW-ISW) (g/g)
CON28	4.22 ± 0.09	0.77 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.02
CON42	3.60 ± 0.06	0.71 ± 0.01	0.26 ± 0.02
CIHH28	4.17 ± 0.07	0.78 ± 0.02	0.26 ± 0.01
CIHH42	3.55 ± 0.07	0.74 ± 0.01	0.30 ± 0.02

All data expressed as mean ± SEM (n = 6 per group)

BW body weight, VW ventricular weight, RVW right ventricular weight, LVW-ISW left ventricular + inter-ventricular septum weight

^aCON28, Control 28-day group; CON42, control 42-day group; CIHH28, CIHH 28-day group; CIHH42, CIHH 42-day group; for more detail see section “Animal groups and hypoxia treatment”