The impact of physical fitness and body mass index in children on the development of acute mountain sickness: A prospective observational study

BACKGROUND: Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is commonly found among people traveling above 2500 m. We investigated whether the occurrence of AMS is related to differences in individual physical fitness and BMI in subjects 11–13 years of age. METHODS: This study was conducted at Xue Mountain, Taiwan (e...

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Autores principales: Wu, Shih-Hao, Lin, Yin-Chou, Weng, Yi-Ming, Chiu, Yu-Hui, Li, Wen-Cheng, Wang, Shih-Hao, Chan, Chang-Wei, Chiu, Te-Fa, Huang, Kuo-Feng, Chen, Chung-Hsien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0373-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947200
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-015-0373-0

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