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HIGH ALTITUDE HEADACHE – AN ETIOLOGICAL BASED STUDY
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2012 Objective: To determine the various causes of headache in patients evacuated from high altitude. Design: Descriptive study Materials and Methods: An observational hospital based study carried out on 50 soldiers evacuated from Northern Areas to Military ...
Maj Gen Hamid Shafiq +6 more
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Frontiers in Molecular BiosciencesHumans and laboratory animals differ in their resistance to hypoxia, which affects the severity of inflammatory diseases and the rate of tumor progression.
Maria Silina +5 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge. Yet little is known about the time it actually took. We address this lacuna.
Sara Horrell, Jane Humphries
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Obesity as a Conditioning Factor for High-Altitude Diseases
Obesity Facts, 2017 Obesity, a worldwide epidemic, has become a major health burden because it is usually accompanied by an increased risk for insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and even some kinds of cancer.
Rocío San Martin +3 more
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Intracranial pressure at high altitude and acute mountain sickness
, 1995 1. Raised intracranial pressure has been noted in severe forms of acute mountain sickness and high-altitude cerebral oedema, but the role of intracranial pressure in the pathogenesis of mild to moderate acute mountain sickness is unknown. 2.
Imray, C. (Chris) +4 more
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Impacts of coal smoke on infant mortality: Evidence from industrializing Japan
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates the health consequences of coal smoke during Japan's early industrialization. Using fixed‐effects models and a prefecture‐level panel dataset on actual coal consumption and infant mortality from 1899 to 1910, this study finds that higher coal consumption was positively associated with infant mortality.
Tatsuki Inoue
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npj Biofilms and MicrobiomesHigh-altitude environments, characterized by hypobaric and hypoxic conditions, induce acute hypoxia, resulting in decreased blood oxygen saturation.
Ping Qi +5 more
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Background: Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) commonly affects individuals ascending above 2,500 meters due to inadequate adaptation to hypobaric hypoxia. Climbing speed and acclimatization are important modifiable risk factors, although evidence regarding ...
M. Shoffiul Awal +3 more
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Does hope help? Climate emotions and the chances for change
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract Hope is sometimes dismissed as a feel‐good attitude that discourages people from taking meaningful action. In climate debates, many activists and scholars frame fear as a more effective motivator than hope. Yet in rural Namibia and Kenya, as well as in several recent social movements, hope is experienced as a vital force that sustains people ...
Michael Schnegg, Julian Sommerschuh
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Transcerebral exchange kinetics of nitrite and calcitonin gene-related peptide in acute mountain sickness: evidence against trigeminovascular activation? [PDF]
, 2009 Udgivelsesdato: 2009-JunBACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: High-altitude headache is the primary symptom associated with acute mountain sickness, which may be caused by nitric oxide-mediated activation of the trigeminovascular system.
Bailey, D. M. +21 more
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