Index measured at an intermediate altitude to predict impending acute mountain sickness

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1811-1818

  Modesti, Pietro Amedeo ^a,b   Rapi, Stefano ^a   Paniccia, Rita ^a   Bilo, Gregorz ^c,d   Revera, Miriam ^c   Agostoni, Piergiuseppe ^e   Piperno, Alberto ^d   Cambi, Giulia Elisa ^a   Rogolino, Angela ^a   Biggeri, Annibale ^a   Mancia, Giuseppe ^d   Gensini, Gian Franco ^a,b   Abbate, Rosanna ^a   Parati, Gianfranco ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

coagulation; Lake louise score; oxygen saturation; thromboelastometry

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUNTAINEERING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOUNTAINEERING; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052968081     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31821b55df     Document Type: Article

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