Chronic mountain sickness score was related with health status score but not with hemoglobin levels at high altitudes

Respiratory Physiology and Neurobiology

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 152-160

  Gonzales, Gustavo F ^a   Rubio, Julio ^a   Gasco, Manuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

Author keywords

Chronic hypoxia; Chronic mountain sickness; Excessive erythrocytosis; Gender; Peru

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART PALPITATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP DISORDER; TINNITUS; VEIN DILATATION;

CHRONIC HYPOXIA; CHRONIC MOUNTAIN SICKNESS; EXCESSIVE ERYTHROCYTOSIS; GENDER; PERU;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84880114868     PISSN: 15699048     EISSN: 18781519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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