“…The minor degree of hypoxia provoked smaller changes in myocardial blood flow. This has been demonstrated by others as well (1,2,22,36,46,58,59,73,74). The surprisingly high rise in flow observed by Hellems et at during moderate hypoxia of 10 vol % may be partially explained by the flow measuring technique applied, the nitrous oxide method (16,38,39), which overestimates high flow rates (71).…”