Acute mountain sickness; prophylactic benefits of antioxidant vitamin supplementation at high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-29

  Bailey, D M ^a   Davies, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Antioxidant vitamins; Energy homeostasis; Oxygen free radicals; Randomized double blind placebo controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; FREE RADICAL; LIPID; OXYGEN; PLACEBO; THIOCTIC ACID; VITAMIN; WATER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEAL; MOUNTAINEERING; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SATIETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEA; SOLUBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; TASTE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; OXIMETRY; VITAMINS;

EID: 0035027583     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702901750067882     Document Type: Article

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