Blood pressure responses in young adults first exposed to high altitude for 12 months at 3550 m

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-335

  Siqués, Patricia ^a   Brito, Julio ^a   Banegas, Jose R ^b   León Velarde, Fabiola ^c   De La Cruz Troca, Juan J ^b   López, Vasthi ^a   Naveas, Nelson ^a   Herruzo, Rafael ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ARTURO PRAT   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Acute mountain sickness; Altitude; Blood pressure; Chronic hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77049123455     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2008.1103     Document Type: Article

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