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Sex differences in calf muscle hemoglobin oxygen saturation in patients with intermittent claudication.

Andrew W AW Gardner, Donald E DE Parker, Polly S PS Montgomery, Steve M SM Blevins, Raha R Nael, and Azhar A Afaq

J Vasc Surg 50(1):77-82 (2009) PMID 19223136 PMCID PMC2765784

We tested the hypotheses that women have greater impairment in calf muscle hemoglobin oxygen saturation (StO(2)) in response to exercise than men, and that the sex-related difference in calf muscle StO(2) would partially explain the shorter claudication distances of women.

Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2008.12.065
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