ACUTE MOUNTAIN-SICKNESS
Relationship between Changes in Cerebral Blood Flow with Symptoms of Acute Mountain Sickness in Men Repeatedly Exposed to Simulated High Altitude
... Objective: To study the relationship between changes in the cerebral blood flow (CBF) velocity with symptoms of acute mountain sickness (AMS) during simulated high altitude. Research Design and ...
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Network Analysis Reveals Distinct Clinical Syndromes Underlying Acute Mountain Sickness
... Visual analogue scale (VAS) and Lake Louise Score (LLS) data were collected from 292 individuals over the course of 1110 subject-days at high altitude. This included 189 questionnaires from 189 subjects at the Kibo Hut ...
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Association between ACTN3 and acute mountain sickness
... Background: During the process of acclimatization, when our organism needs to adjust several metabolic processes in the attempt of establishing a better oxygenation, it is normal that individuals present some symptoms ...
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Original Article Physiological responses to acute hypoxia and indictors of acute mountain sickness in males
... Currently, acute hypoxia and the underlying mechanisms of acute mountain sickness (AMS) have not been ...to acute hypoxia and the related compensatory factors for ...after acute ...
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Association between smoking and the risk of acute mountain sickness: a meta-analysis of observational studies
... from acute mountain sickness (AMS), an illness char- acterized by symptoms such as headache, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, dizziness, fatigue and sleep distur- bances [1, ...
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Neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin: its response to hypoxia and association with acute mountain sickness
... Copyright © 2013 Adrian Mellor et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
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Acute Mountain Sickness Symptoms Depend on Normobaric versus Hypobaric Hypoxia
... Acute mountain sickness (AMS), characterized by headache, nausea, fatigue, and dizziness when unacclimatized individuals rapidly ascend to high altitude, is exacerbated by exercise and can be ...
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Reproducibility of Acute Mountain Sickness in Children and Adults: A Prospective Study
... risks, acute mountain sickness (AMS) is by far the most fre- quent problem occuring in more than 80% of tourists arriving by plane at 3740 ...
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Incidence of acute mountain sickness in UK Military Personnel on Mount Kenya
... Mount Kenya has 3 summits, with the third highest – Point Lenana (4985m) the highest point reached with no technical climbing required. This location is often chosen for adventurous training (AT) during a Unit’s ...
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Sex-based differences in the prevalence of acute mountain sickness: a meta-analysis
... as, acute mountain sickness, acute high altitude disease, acute mountain illness, altitude disease, Lake Louise Scor- ing System (LLSS)); 2) epidemiological indicators of dis- ...
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Association between acute mountain sickness (AMS) and age: a meta-analysis
... tain sickness”, “acute high-altitude disease”, “acute mountain illness”, “incidence”, “questionnaires”, “risk factors” and “age” as well as combinations of those using “OR” and ...
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A specific objective supplemental factor in evaluating acute mountain sickness: ΔHR in combination with SaO2
... experience acute mountain sickness (AMS) due to the hypobaric hypoxia that occurs when individuals are exposed acutely to high altitude (above 2,500 m) or after pre-acclimatization to the same [1, ...
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Prevalence and Time Course of Acute Mountain Sickness in Older Children and Adolescents After Rapid Ascent to 3450 Meters
... F ACILITATED BY MODERN transportation systems, travel to high-altitude destinations has become increasingly popular. Therefore, large numbers of persons, including increasing numbers of children and adolescents, are ...
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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
... Since the opening of the world’s highest plateau railway (The Qinghai-Tibet Railway) to Lhasa in 2006, the num- ber of tourists visiting Tibet has increased sharply from 2.5 million in 2006 to more than 15 million ...
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Prediction of the development and susceptibility to acute mountain sickness (AMS) by monitoring oxygen saturation (SpO2) – literature review
... During ascent, base camp stay and approach to the summit, oxygen saturation was measured in the group of 13 mountaineers by pulse oximetry at rest, during exercise and during sleep. Symptoms of the acute ...
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Rhodiola crenulata extract for prevention of acute mountain sickness: a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial
... prevent acute mountain sickness in the Himalayan areas and in Tibet, but no scientific studies have previously examined its ...in acute mountain sickness ...of acute ...
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The relationship between anxiety and acute mountain sickness
... It is increasingly appreciated that psychological factors may be equally important to HA success, however their influence has been far less explored in the literature [3,4]. Mental well- being and resilience are ...
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Significance of the proper acclimatization, use of the acetazolamide and dexamethasone in prevention of acute mountain sickness (AMS) – literature review
... 11 low-altitude residents were measured PetCO2, SaO2, HR, MAP at sea-level (SL) and within 1 h of exposure to 4300 m in a hypobaric chamber prior to 6 d of staging at 2200 m (preSTG) and on the summit of Pikes Peak ...
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Age as a risk factor for acute mountain sickness upon rapid ascent to 3,700 m among young adult Chinese men
... upon acute exposure to high altitude among young adult Chinese men, and sustained poor subjec- tive sleep prior to ascent may be an important contributor to an increased prevalence of AMS in the older ...
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The impact of physical fitness and body mass index in children on the development of acute mountain sickness: A prospective observational study
... Xue Mountain (3886 m) in approximately 5 h, followed by descent to Sanliujian Hut for a physical exam and an AMS evaluation (sleep status on night 2 was used in the scoring of the Day 3 ...
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