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Excessive polycythemia occurs in young high-altitude (3600 M) residents in the absence of lung disease
(High Altitude Medicine & Biology, 2002-04-18)
Objective: Chronic Mountain Sickness occurs in , 8% of the La Paz
population. We asked whether its primary diagnostic sign, excessive polycythemia (EP), occurred in youngeraged persons
without lung disease. Methods: ...
The effects of smoking on a high altitude population. (La Paz, Bolivia, 3600m or 12,200ft)
(Tobacco and Health, 1990)
Barometric pressure (PB) decreases with increasing a altitude. Since oxygen concentration is about 21% in the air of
the whole atmosphere, its partial pressure is also 21% of PB. At the altitude of La Paz (3600)m or ...