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Hyperventilation

"Hyperventilation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A pulmonary ventilation rate faster than is metabolically necessary for the exchange of gases. It is the result of an increased frequency of breathing, an increased tidal volume, or a combination of both. It causes an excess intake of oxygen and the blowing off of carbon dioxide.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hyperventilation" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Hyperventilation" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 35 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2005 and 2010
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.