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The goal, according to Kasak, was to conduct
“
every physiological test you could imagine”
to measure the human body’s responses to
extreme altitudes and conditions.
“
Many of the symptoms observed at altitude – back-flow between heart
chambers, fluid accumulation in the lungs, muscular wasting – are the
same as seen with cardiac disease,” says Kasak, a graduate of the
exercise science program at Winona State University.
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