Table 1 Gender, average ages and the physiological parameters: arterial oxygen saturation of hemoglobin (SaO ₂ ), heart rate (HR), systolic arterial blood pressure (BPs) and diastolic arterial blood pressure (BPd) with standard errors for the AMS Han patients, CMS Tibetans patients, and the corresponding control subjects

34.2 ± 0.8

64.4 ± 0.9*

116.8 ± 1.4

77.9 ± 1.8

105.1 ± 1.5*

37.0 ± 2.4

53.0 ± 1.8*

108.8 ± 2.8

73.6 ± 2.5

99.1 ± 4.1*

36.1 ± 2.4

90.2 ± 0.4

114.0 ± 3.6

76.0 ± 1.8

81.0 ± 2.9

28.0 ± 1.8

91.0 ± 0.5

110.0 ± 3.6

68.0 ± 1.4

79.0 ± 1.6

52.1 ± 1.9

82.0 ± 0.9*

136.5 ± 3.3*

96.1 ± 3.1*

86.3 ± 1.9*

58.1 ± 3.1

80.8 ± 1.1*

148.0 ± 5.3*

112.0 ± 2.9*

91.8 ± 4.3*

29.5 ± 1.7

92.8 ± 0.6

115.0 ± 2.8

78.0 ± 2.4

72.1 ± 2.5

30.5 ± 1.4

91.3 ± 0.5

113.0 ± 2.7

76.2 ± 2.5

82.3 ± 1.7