Altitude illness in Qinghai-Tibet railroad passengers

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 189-198

  Wu, Tian Yi ^a,b   Ding, Shou Quan ^c   Zhang, Sheng Lin ^d   Duan, Jin Qing ^c   Li, Bao Yu ^e   Zhan, Zhong Yan ^c   Wu, Qin Li ^c   Baomu, Suolung ^c   ZhuLiang, Bao ^f   Han, Shu Rang ^f   Jie, Yu Ling ^f   Li, Gang ^f   Sun, Lin ^f   Kayser, Bengt ^g  

^a Ministry of Railroad   (China)

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

^c Headquarters of Qinghai Tibet Railway Construction   (China)

^d Department of Cardiovascular Diseases   (China)

^e General Hospital of the China Railway   (China)

^f Qinghai Tibet Railroad Company   (China)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

acute mountain sickness; high altitude train; Lhasa; Qinghai Tibet railroad

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANKLE EDEMA; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CHINA; DYSPNEA; FACE EDEMA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOOT EDEMA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TRAVEL; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAILROADS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIBET; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957745323     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2009.1047     Document Type: Article

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