 Altitude
"Altitude" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
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A vertical distance measured from a known level on the surface of a planet or other celestial body.
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D000531
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.275.058 N06.230.058
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Altitude" by people in this website by year, and whether "Altitude" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1992 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2014 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2015 | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Altitude" by people in Profiles.
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Yurkevicius BR, Bradbury KE, Nixon AC, Mitchell KM, Luippold AJ, Mayer TA, Alba BK, Salgado RM, Charkoudian N. Influence of Acetazolamide on Hand Strength and Manual Dexterity During a 30-h Simulated High Altitude Exposure. Mil Med. 2020 08 14; 185(7-8):e1161-e1167.
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Salgado RM, Coffman KE, Bradbury KE, Mitchell KM, Yurkevicius BR, Luippold AJ, Mayer TA, Charkoudian N, Alba BK, Fulco CS, Kenefick RW. Effect of 8 days of exercise-heat acclimation on aerobic exercise performance of men in hypobaric hypoxia. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2020 07 01; 319(1):R114-R122.
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Schumm M, White AE, Supriya K, Price TD. Ecological Limits as the Driver of Bird Species Richness Patterns along the East Himalayan Elevational Gradient. Am Nat. 2020 05; 195(5):802-817.
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Santos C, Bustamante A, Hedeker D, Vasconcelos O, Garganta R, Katzmarzyk PT, Maia J. Correlates of Overweight in Children and Adolescents Living at Different Altitudes: The Peruvian Health and Optimist Growth Study. J Obes. 2019; 2019:2631713.
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Rana SK, Gross K, Price TD. Drivers of elevational richness peaks, evaluated for trees in the east Himalaya. Ecology. 2019 01; 100(1):e02548.
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Jeong C, Witonsky DB, Basnyat B, Neupane M, Beall CM, Childs G, Craig SR, Novembre J, Di Rienzo A. Detecting past and ongoing natural selection among ethnically Tibetan women at high altitude in Nepal. PLoS Genet. 2018 09; 14(9):e1007650.
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Xing Y, Ree RH. Uplift-driven diversification in the Hengduan Mountains, a temperate biodiversity hotspot. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 04 25; 114(17):E3444-E3451.
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Jeong C, Ozga AT, Witonsky DB, Malmström H, Edlund H, Hofman CA, Hagan RW, Jakobsson M, Lewis CM, Aldenderfer MS, Di Rienzo A, Warinner C. Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 07 05; 113(27):7485-90.
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Valencia-Flores M, Mokhlesi B, Santiago-Ayala V, Reséndiz-García M, Castaño-Meneses A, Meza-Vargas MS, Mendoza A, Orea-Tejeda A, García-Ramos G, Aguilar-Salinas C, Bliwise DL. Intermittent hypoxemia and sleep fragmentation: associations with daytime alertness in obese sleep apnea patients living at moderate altitude. Sleep Med. 2016 04; 20:103-9.
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Siraj AS, Bouma MJ, Santos-Vega M, Yeshiwondim AK, Rothman DS, Yadeta D, Sutton PC, Pascual M. Temperature and population density determine reservoir regions of seasonal persistence in highland malaria. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 12 07; 282(1820):20151383.
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