Effects on colour discrimination during long term exposure to high altitudes on Mt Everest

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1393-1397

  Willmann, Gabriel ^a,b   Ivanov, Iliya V ^b,c   Fischer, Manuel D ^b   Lahiri, Sukhamay ^a   Pokharel, Rohit K ^d   Werner, Annette ^b   Khurana, Tejvir S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOXIA; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION TEST;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR PERCEPTION TESTS; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77958588222     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.178491     Document Type: Article

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