In order to survive in the low oxygen conditions of the Tibetan Plateau, people living there ... higher oxygen saturation, and a higher pulse rate correlate with higher lifetime reproductive ...

Patients with darker skin who received less accurate readings of their oxygen levels using pulse oximeters — the ubiquitous devices clamped on hospitalized patients’ fingers — also received ...

Our results suggest that in the VA alone, there may be over 75,000 instances a year where low blood oxygen is missed in a Black veteran yet would have been detected if pulse oximeters functioned ...

Pulse oximeters are electronic devices that clamp onto a patient’s finger to estimate their blood oxygen levels and pulse rate. Prescription and over-the-counter versions of these devices became ...