Acute mountain sickness amongst tourists to Lhasa

Acute mountain sickness is the commonest acute high altitude illness occurring at high altitude. Its prevalence is dependent on the ascent rate, altitude achieved, physical effort required to reach the target altitude and pharmacological intervention undertaken by the tourists visiting high altitude...

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Autores principales: Sikri, Gaurav, Bhattachar, Srinivasa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5273785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0172-6
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description Acute mountain sickness is the commonest acute high altitude illness occurring at high altitude. Its prevalence is dependent on the ascent rate, altitude achieved, physical effort required to reach the target altitude and pharmacological intervention undertaken by the tourists visiting high altitude areas. This Letter to the Editor is an endeavour to re-emphasise the importance of all these factors affecting the prevalence of acute mountain sickness.
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spelling pubmed-52737852017-02-01 Acute mountain sickness amongst tourists to Lhasa Sikri, Gaurav Bhattachar, Srinivasa Arch Public Health Letter to the Editor Acute mountain sickness is the commonest acute high altitude illness occurring at high altitude. Its prevalence is dependent on the ascent rate, altitude achieved, physical effort required to reach the target altitude and pharmacological intervention undertaken by the tourists visiting high altitude areas. This Letter to the Editor is an endeavour to re-emphasise the importance of all these factors affecting the prevalence of acute mountain sickness. BioMed Central 2017-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5273785/ /pubmed/28149514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-016-0172-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5273785/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28149514
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