High altitude cognitive performance and COPD interaction

Hippokratia

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages 84-90

  Kourtidou Papadeli, C ^a,b,c   Papadelis, C ^a,b   Koutsonikolas, D ^a   Boutzioukas, S ^a   Styliadis, C ^a,b   Guiba Tziampiri, O ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Greek Aerospace Medical Association and Space Research   (Greece)

^c Lab of Medical Informatics ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Cognitive performance; Human error; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 52949122136     PISSN: 11084189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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