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In Brief HOPKINS, S. R., and C. A. HARMS. Gender and pulmonary gas exchange during exercise. Exerc. Sport Sci. Rev., Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 50–56, 2004. Relative to body size, women have a lower diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide, smaller airway diameter, and smaller lung volumes than men. The effect that these differences have on gas exchange during exercise is incompletely understood. Women may have a larger alveolar-arterial PO2difference that may be compensated for, in part, by increased alveolar ventilation. Pulmonary gas exchange during exercise may be different between genders, with women being more susceptible to limitations.
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