Heights and haematology: The story of haemoglobin at altitude

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 83, Issue 977, 2007, Pages 148-151

  Windsor, Jeremy S ^a   Rodway, George W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEIGHT; HEMOGLOBIN ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; OXYGEN TENSION; PLASMA VOLUME; REVIEW;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBINS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; PLASMA VOLUME; POLYCYTHEMIA;

EID: 33947514823     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.049734     Document Type: Review

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