Trekking at high altitudes

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If a heart patient in his 60s asks if he can safely ski high in the Rockies, how do you decide whether to say yes or no? What about the young woman with inhalant allergies and possibly the beginning of emphysema? What medications have deleterious effects at higher elevations? In this article, Dr Houston examines these problems and others and explains the pathophysiologic effects of trekking at high altitude.