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Postgraduate Medicine Volume 74, 1983 - Issue 1
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Altitude illness

The dangers of the heights and how to avoid them

Charles S. Houston
, MD
Pages 231-248 | Published online: 18 Apr 2016

Suggested reading

  • Heath D, Williams DR. Man at high altitude: the pathophysiology of acclimatization and adaptation. 2nd ed. New York: Longman (Churchill Livingstone). 1981
  • Houston CS. Going high: the story of man and altitude. Burlington. VT: Queen City Press. 1981
  • Loeppky JA, Riedesel ML. Oxygen transport to human tissues. New York: Elsevier North-Holland, 1982
  • Sutton JR, Jones N, Houston CS. Hypoxia: man at altitude. New York: Thieme-Stratton. 1982
  • West J. High altitude physiology. Stroudsburg. PA: Hutchinson Ross. 1982 (Benchmark papers in human physiology series: vol 15)

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