Age and acute mountain sickness: Examining the data [8]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 735-

  Graham, Jeremy ^a   Potyk, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LETTER; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 18944405847     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53228_8.x     Document Type: Letter

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