Diabetes and extreme altitude mountaineering
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Diabetes and extreme altitude mountaineering.
Increasing numbers of people with diabetes are seeking advice about participation in high altitude climbing, which has the problems of serious metabolic demands, a high likelihood of acute mountain sickness (AMS), and leaving the climber remote from medical care. The American Diabetes Association states that “all levels of exercise, including leisure activities, recreational sports, and competi...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Sports Medicine
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0306-3674
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.35.2.83