Functional status of the human cardiorespiratory system during a one-year expedition at Vostok station in central Antarctica as a model of a long-term lunar base

Abstract

Investigation of the cardiorespiratory system status in the conditions of yearlong wintering at Vostok station provided new data on the development of long-term adaptation of the human body under the influence of combined factors of the extreme environment of Central Antarctica, where this climatic zone was considered as a model of the extreme environment of the lunar base. During the 64th Russian Antarctic Expedition (2019), extended studies, including a dynamic assessment of the state of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems of polar expeditioners were carried out at Vostok station. New information was obtained regarding the peculiarities of the functioning of the cardiorespiratory system under the conditions of hypobaric hypoxia depending on age during the annual adaptation to the extreme climatic conditions of Central Antarctica.