Exposure to high altitude and air travel in coronary disease;Hohenaufenthalte und fluge bei koronarer herzkrankheit

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 128, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 671-678

  Allemann, Y ^a,b   Saner, H ^a   Meier, B ^a  

^a Kardiale Rehabilitation und Prävention   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; AVIATION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PATIENT COUNSELING; REVIEW; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CORONARY DISEASE; EXERTION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0032565224     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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