Relationship of altitude mountain sickness and smoking: a Catalan traveller's cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study is to analyse the relationship between smoking and altitude mountain sickness in a cohort of travellers to 2500 metres above sea level (masl) or higher.

Setting

Travel Health Clinic at the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, in Barcelona, Spain.

Participants

A total of 302 adults seeking medical advice at the travel clinic, between July 2012 and August 2014, before travelling to 2500 masl or above, who agreed to participate in the study and to be contacted after the trip were included. Individuals who met the following criteria were excluded: younger than 18 years old, taking carbonic anhydrase inhibitors for chronic use, undergoing treatment with systemic corticosteroids and taking any medication that might prevent or treat alt

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Mascunano A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623483 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature