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Acute mountain sickness among tourists visiting the high-altitude city of Lhasa at 3658 m above sea level: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Traveling to Tibet implies a risk for developing acute mountain sickness (AMS), and the size of this problem is likely increasing due to the rising number of tourists. No previous study on AMS has been conducted among the general tourist population in Tibet. Thus, the aim of this study w...

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Autores principales: Gonggalanzi, Labasangzhu, Nafstad, Per, Stigum, Hein, Wu, Tianyi, Haldorsen, Øyvind Drejer, Ommundsen, Kristoffer, Bjertness, Espen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4888367/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0134-z