Underlying lung disease and exposure to terrestrial moderate and high altitude: personalised risk assessment

Abstract Once reserved for the fittest, worldwide altitude travel has become increasingly accessible for ageing and less fit people. As a result, more and more individuals with varying degrees of respiratory conditions wish to travel to altitude destinations. Exposure to a hypobaric hypoxic environm...

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Main Authors: Kirsten Holthof, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Isabelle Frésard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-05-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01979-z