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Thin Air Resulting in High Pressure: Mountain Sickness and Hypoxia-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension
With rising altitude the partial pressure of oxygen falls. This phenomenon leads to hypobaric hypoxia at high altitude. Since more than 140 million people permanently live at heights above 2500 m and more than 35 million travel to these heights each year, understanding the mechanisms resulting in ac...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Hindawi
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5385916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28522921 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8381653 |