Short-term intermittent hypoxia reduces the severity of acute mountain sickness

Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wille, M ^a   Gatterer, H ^a   Mairer, K ^a   Philippe, M ^a   Schwarzenbacher, H ^b   Faulhaber, M ^a   Burtscher, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Dienstleistungen GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acclimatization; Altitude illness; Hypoxic chemosensitivity; Normobaric hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOXIA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MALE; MOUNTAINEERING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866273067     PISSN: 09057188     EISSN: 16000838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0838.2012.01499.x     Document Type: Article

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