Respiratory rate within the first hour of ascent predicts subsequent acute mountain sickness severity

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-156

  Jafarian, Sirous ^a,c   Gorouhi, Farzam ^a   Ghergherechi, Mohammad ^b   Lotfi, Jamshid ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Headache; Insomnia; Mountain sickness; Respiratory rate

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 41149088225     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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