Sleep and breathing at high altitude

Sleep and Breathing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 89-101

  Wickramasinghe, Himanshu ^a   Anholm, James D ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Jerry L Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

High altitude; Hyopbaric hypoxia; Hypoxemia; Periodic breathing; Sleep; Sleep fragmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942464502     PISSN: 15209512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11325-999-0089-1     Document Type: Article

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