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Acute Mountain Sickness: Controversies and Advances
High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2004 This review discusses the impact of recent publications on pathophysiologic concepts and on practical aspects of acute mountain sickness (AMS). Magnetic resonance imaging studies do not provide evidence of total brain volume increase nor edema within the first 6 to 10 h of exposure to hypoxia despite symptoms of AMS.
Bartsch, P. +4 more
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution, EarlyView.We present the most densely sampled phylogeny of Carex section Lupulinae to date (107 specimens) and describe herein a new cryptic species for science from the southern United States, which is locally abundant and found in well‐explored and densely populated areas. Combining DNA sequences with morphometric data obtained from 299 samples, we Demonstrate
Étienne Lacroix‐Carignan +4 more
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Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Although not as prominent as in other animals, humans also experience seasonal variations in sleep duration and circadian processes. These variations are likely primarily driven by changes in photoperiod length. Anecdotally, many people report experiencing fatigue and low energy levels, particularly during spring in Germany, Switzerland and ...
Christine Blume, Albrecht Vorster
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Religion and Black/White Residential Segregation: The Influence of Religious and Regional Context
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on religious tradition and residential segregation focuses on “open” versus “closed” civic orientations, but ignores the structural effects of religious fields as well as other relevant differences, such as Catholic immigrant parishes and the communal role of Black Protestantism in response to racial hostility in large northern cities
David Sikkink, Michael Emerson
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Vascular endothelial growth factor and acute mountain sickness
Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2009 Study Objective: Despite causing significant morbidity throughout the mountainous regions of the world, the pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness (AMS) remains poorly understood.
Nilles Eric +2 more
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Extraordinary measures of sibling worldmaking
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this ethnographic research project involving disabled and non/disabled siblings in Canada, we have found that during major life‐changing transitions, such as the death of a parent, siblings face many challenges, including structural and systemic inequalities, struggles with and within various service systems, and difficulties with emotions ...
Pamela Block, Helen Ries, Dima Kassem
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 2023 Xugang Tang,1,2 Xiuchuan Li,1 Qian Xin,3 Qiang Wang,1 Shuang Li,1 Yongjian Yang1 1Department of Cardiology, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Cardiology, The No.
Tang X +5 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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High altitude sickness - review [PDF]
, 2009 Neðst á síðunni er hægt að nálgast greinina í heild sinni með því að smella á hlekkinn View/OpenHigh altitude sickness is a common name for illnesses that can occur at high altitude, usually above 3000 meters from sea level.
Gunnar Guðmundsson +1 more
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