Altitude preexposure recommendations for inducing acclimatization

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Muza, Stephen R ^a   Beidleman, Beth A ^a   Fulco, Charles S ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; altitude acclimatization; high altitude

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CLIMBING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG VENTILATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRAVEL; ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION;

EID: 77954933635     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2010.1006     Document Type: Article

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