Are the laboratory and field conditions observations of acute mountain sickness related?

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 895-899

  Savourey, Gustave ^a   Guinet, Angélique ^a   Besnard, Yves ^a   Garcia, Nathalie ^a   Hanniquet, Anne Marie ^a   Bittel, Jacques ^a  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; INSOMNIA; LABORATORY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; EXPEDITIONS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030874164     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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