Predictive models of acute mountain sickness after rapid ascent to various altitudes

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 792-800

  Beidleman, Beth A ^a   Tighiouart, Hocine ^b   Schmid, Christopher H ^b   Fulco, Charles S ^a   Muza, Stephen R ^a  

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

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Altitude; Altitude Sickness; Hypobaric Hypoxia; Hypoxia; Mixed Models; Unacclimatized Lowlanders

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878862426     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31827989ec     Document Type: Article

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