Acute mountain sickness in Jade Mountain climbers of Taiwan

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 359-362

  Kao, Wei Fong ^a   Kuo, Chien Chun ^a   Hsu, Teh Fu ^a   Chang, Hsing ^a   Sung, Ying Ying ^a   Yen, David H T ^a   Wu, Jer Kan ^a   Lee, Chen Hsen ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Jade Mountain; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SCORING SYSTEM; TAIWAN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 0036207537     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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