Prevalence of acute mountain sickness in the eastern Alps

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 239-245

  Mairer, Klemens ^a   Wille, Maria ^a   Bucher, Thomas ^a   Burtscher, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acute mountain sickness; Altitude illness; Hypoxia; Mountaineering; Prevalence; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; MOUNTAINEERING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; AUSTRIA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70349509840     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1091     Document Type: Article

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