Acclimatization to high altitude: Truths and misconceptions

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 401-402

  West, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EDITORIAL; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS HYPOVENTILATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS OXYGEN TENSION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OXYGEN THERAPY; PLASMA VOLUME; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXEMIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HAWAII; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0347286924     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702903322616137     Document Type: Editorial

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