Prevalence of Chronic Mountain Sickness in high altitude districts of Himachal Pradesh

Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 94-100

  Sahota, Inderjeet Singh ^a   Panwar, Nidhi Singh ^a  

^a Office of Development Research A Thousand Metres Above Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Altitude physiology; chronic mountain sickness; environmental physiology; epidemiology; Himalayas; hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PARESTHESIA; PREVALENCE; PULSE OXIMETRY; PULSE RATE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; TINNITUS; TOBACCO USE;

EID: 84899711629     PISSN: 09732284     EISSN: 19983670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5278.130839     Document Type: Article

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