2007, Piran, Slovenia

Environmental Ergonomics XII
Igor B. Mekjavic, Stelios N. Kounalakis & Nigel A.S. Taylor (Eds.), © BIOMED, Ljubljana 2007
DISCUSSION
During leg exercise at 40% and 60–69% of maximal O2 uptake, the changes in BF variables
with a rise in Tb differed between the basilic vein and the brachial vein, implying that the
venous BF return in the upper limb depends primarily on superficial veins during rising Tb
with leg cycling exercise. Moreover, the BF and D in the basilic vein and the BF and V in the
brachial vein were affected by exercise intensity at the early stage of the rise in Tb. In spite of
this, the BF variables in the brachial vein did not change substantially.
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