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. 2017 Mar 15;117(5):893–900. doi: 10.1007/s00421-017-3573-5

Table 1.

Data (mean ± SD) for PNORMET (plasma normetanephrine), PMET (plasma metanephrine), cortisol, hscTnT (highly sensitive cardiac troponin T), and NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide) under conditions of NN (normobaric normoxia), GHA (genuine high altitude), NH (normobaric hypoxia), and HH (hypobaric hypoxia)

NN (n = 13) GHA (n = 14) NH (n = 13) HH (n = 8)
T0 T120 T240 T0 T120 T240 22 h post T0 T120 T240 T0 T120 T240
PNORMET (pmol/l) 266 ± 193 878 ± 279* 410 ± 279 525 ± 155 1635 ± 645* 766 ± 350 482 ± 193 369 ± 101 1111 ± 442* 603 ± 279 408 ± 95 988 ± 463* 567 ± 233
PMET (pmol/l) 190 ± 75 269 ± 78* 139 ± 41 222 ± 57 359 ± 114* 173 ± 45 201 ± 48 233 ± 70 320 ± 83* 219 ± 54 244 ± 69 325 ± 75 234 ± 62
Cortisol (nmol/l) 450 ± 196 592 ± 191 327 ± 139 520 ± 276 786 ± 234* 456 ± 218 404 ± 148 519 ± 164 681 ± 189* 374 ± 153 420 ± 196 735 ± 293* 495 ± 282
hscTnT (ng/l) 3.4 ± 1.2 3.4 ± 1.3 4.3 ± 1.7 3.3 ± 1.3 4.8 ± 3.4 15.4 ± 13.6** 4.8 ± 6 3.1 ± 0.3 5.4 ± 4.2 17.3 ± 17.2** 3 ± 0 4 ± 2.6 11.5 ± 12.5**
NT-proBNP (pg/ml) 29 ± 28 30 ± 18 30 ± 29 37 ± 39 48 ± 49* 42 ± 44** 48.2 ± 61*** 37 ± 38 49 ± 48* 47 ± 44** 25 ± 30 31 ± 37 32 ± 35

*Significant (p < 0.05) rise by T120 over baseline

**Significant (p < 0.05) rise by T240 over baseline

***Significant (p < 0.05) rise by 22 h post-exercise over baseline