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People with pre-existing heart or lung conditions are at a higher risk of hypoxia, a dangerous condition in which your body doesn’t get enough oxygen to maintain homeostasis.
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 13 June 2024
Later, Logan’s condition worsened and he was taken to Danbury Hospital with shortness of breath, rapid and shallow breathing, hypoxia, cyanosis, abnormal and rapid heartbeat and fever, the suit states.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2024
Read more about nitrogen hypoxia and experts' worries here.
—Jeanine Santucci, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
Nitrogen hypoxia critics contend that putting a mask on a person’s face that forces them to breath nitrogen is tantamount to suffocation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 13 June 2024
Later, Logan’s condition worsened and he was taken to Danbury Hospital with shortness of breath, rapid and shallow breathing, hypoxia, cyanosis, abnormal and rapid heartbeat and fever, the suit states.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 19 Mar. 2024
Read more about nitrogen hypoxia and experts' worries here.
—Jeanine Santucci, The Courier-Journal, 25 Jan. 2024
Nitrogen hypoxia critics contend that putting a mask on a person’s face that forces them to breath nitrogen is tantamount to suffocation.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024
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“Hypoxia.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hypoxia. Accessed 3 Jul. 2024.
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hypoxia
noun
hyp·ox·ia
hip-ˈäk-sē-ə 
hī-ˈpäk-
hī-ˈpäk-
: a deficiency of oxygen reaching the tissues of the body
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