High altitude heart disease in children in Tibet

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 323-325

  Wu, Tianyi ^a   Miao, Chenyi ^a  

^a High Altitude Med Res Institute   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DIURETIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CHINA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; INFANT; LETTER; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG WEDGE PRESSURE; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCHOOL CHILD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIBET;

EID: 0036745931     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702902320604340     Document Type: Letter

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