Sentences with phrase «decreased oxygen level in the blood»

Flea infestations on small or weak pets can cause life - threatening anemia (iron - deficiency anemia, decreased red blood cells circulating through the blood, which means a decreased oxygen level in the blood).

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It's also important to note that a frequently cited 2009 study published in the journal Pediatrics found that healthy newborns sitting in a car seat had significantly decreased blood oxygen levels compared to those laying flat and the researchers concluded that infant car seats should be used for car travel and not as a replacement for a flat sleeping surface.
Apnea can cause the «B,» bradycardia, which is a decrease in the baby's blood oxygen level and a heart rate under 80 beats per minute.
«We already know there are physiological benefits in the newborns when they are held skin - to - skin,» Dr. Isaza said, such as stabilization of heart rate, breathing patterns and blood oxygen levels, gains in sleep time and weight, decreased crying, greater breastfeeding success and earlier hospital discharge.
The most common animal model used to study OSA today is intermittent hypoxia (IH) which relies solely on exposing animals to a decrease in blood oxygen levels.
Resting - state functional magnetic resonance imaging allows investigating whole - brain connectivity changes during pharmacological modulation of the level of consciousness.Low - frequency spontaneous blood oxygen level - dependent fluctuations were measured in 19 healthy volunteers during wakefulness, mild sedation, deep sedation with clinical unconsciousness, and subsequent recovery of consciousness.Propofol - induced decrease in consciousness linearly correlates with decreased corticocortical and thalamocortical connectivity in frontoparietal networks (i.e., default - and executive - control networks).
The regions that comprise the functionally connected resting - state default - mode network (DMN) in adults appear to be the same as those that are characterized by task - induced decreases in blood - oxygen - level - dependent (BOLD) signal.
Likewise for the behavioural results, we assessed a potential association between averaged blood oxygen level - dependent signals in the regions of interest where individuals with ASD showed significantly decreased social minus belief - / belief minus control activity compared with typically developing participants, and clinical information of interest, such as the Social Responsiveness Scale score.
The plausible explanations were relaxation of bronchial smooth muscles, increase in the ventilation and brain oxygen concentration, and decrease in the blood lactate level.
But it is thought that the sudden drop in prostaglandin blood levels after birth (much of the prostaglandins was made in the infants placenta), an increase in the infants blood oxygen level as its lungs begin to function and decreased resistance to blood flow as the infant's lungs fully expand drive the closure process.
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