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Association between acute mountain sickness (AMS) and age: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Acute mountain sickness (AMS) is a potentially lethal condition caused by acute hypoxia after ascending to altitudes higher than 2500 m in a short time. The main symptom of AMS is headache. Numerous risk factors of AMS have been examined, including gender, obesity, ascent rate, age and i...

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Autores principales: Wu, Yu, Zhang, Chi, Chen, Yu, Luo, Yong-Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5946480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29747689
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-018-0161-x