In hypoxemic hypoxia, the oxygen level in the blood going to the tissues is too low to saturate the hemoglobin. The cause: a deficiency in the amount of oxygen available to breathe, often due to lower air pressure at high altitudes, or a failure in the lungs to properly transfer oxygen into the blood.

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