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Acute High-Altitude Illnesses

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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 368, Issue 24, Pages 2294-2302

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MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp1214870

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  1. Merck Sharp Dohme
  2. Bayer HealthCare
  3. Linde Group

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A 45-year-old healthy man wishes to climb Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m) in a 5-day period, starting at 1800 m. The results of a recent exercise stress test were normal; he runs 10 km 4 or 5 times per week and finished a marathon in less than 4 hours last year. He wants to know how he can prevent becoming ill at high altitude and whether training or sleeping under normobaric hypoxic conditions in the weeks before the ascent would be helpful. What would you advise?

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