Serious Altitude Illness in Travelers Who Visited a Pre‐Travel Clinic
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Altitude Illness
Mountains cover one-fifth of the earth’s surface; 38 million people live permanently at altitudes ≥2400 m, and 100 million people travel to high-altitude locations each year. Skiers in Aspen, religious pilgrims to Lhasa, trekkers and climbers to Kilimanjaro or Everest, and military personnel deployed to high-altitude locales are all at risk of developing acute mountain sickness (AMS), high-alti...
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From Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD (A.G.P.R., A.W.C.), and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane (D.P.M.) — both in Australia; the School of Medicine, University of California Riverside, Riverside (G.R.O.); and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (J.J.F.). Address reprint requests...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Travel Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1195-1982,1708-8305
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12160