Reduced incidence and severity of acute mountain sickness in qinghai-tibet railroad construction workers after repeated 7-month exposures despite 5-month low altitude periods

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-232

  Wu, Tian Yi ^a,b   Ding, Shou Quan ^c   Liu, Jin Liang ^c   Yu, Man Tang ^b   Jia, Jian Hou ^c   Duan, Jun Qing ^c   Chai, Zuo Chuan ^c   Dai, Rui Chen ^c   Zhang, Sheng Lin ^d   Liang, Bao Zhu ^e   Zhao, Ji Zhui ^e   Qi, De Tang ^e   Sun, Yong Fu ^e   Kayser, Bengt ^f  

^a Ministry of Railroad   (China)

^b National Key Laboratory of High Altitude Medicine   (China)

^c Qinghai Tibet Railroad Hospitals of the Construction Company   (China)

^d Department of Cardiovascular Diseases   (China)

^e China Communications Construction Company Limited   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Pulmonary artery pressure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; LAKE LOUISE SCORING SYSTEM; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY ARTERY; RAILROADS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 70349487910     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1012     Document Type: Article

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