The Effect of Psychomotor Performance, Cerebral and Arterial Blood Saturation between African-American and Caucasian Males Before, During and After Normobaric Hypoxic Exercise.

To further elucidate physiological and cognitive performance differences between African-American (AA) and Caucasian individuals (CAU) before, during or after hypoxic and normoxic exercise. Twelve college aged (18-25) apparently healthy African-American (six volunteers) and Caucasian (six subjects) males took part in two trials consisting of normobaric normoxia and normobaric hypoxia (12% oxygen). Each subject cycled at 50% of their altitude adjusted VO (-26% of normoxia VO) for one hour after a two-hour baseline.