Acute mountain sickness is not altered by a high carbohydrate diet nor associated with elevated circulating cytokines

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 499-503

  Swenson, Erik R ^a   MacDonald, Alistair ^b   Vatheuer, Martin ^b   Maks, Christine ^b   Treadwell, Allen ^b   Allen, Roblee ^b   Schoene, Robert B ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; PROTEIN DETERMINATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; QUESTIONNAIRES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0030951325     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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