Diabetic retinopathy at high altitude

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-27

  Leal, Conxita ^a   Admetlla, Jordi ^a   Viscor, Ginés ^a,b   Ricart, Antoni ^a  

^a Inst d'Estudis de Med de Muntanya   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Altitude; Diabetes; Diabetic retinopathy; High altitude retinopathy; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING;

EID: 40549143368     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.0125     Document Type: Article

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