Altitude sickness study at an altitude of over 4500 metres

Altitude sickness study at an altitude of over 4500 metres
Ten test subjects took part in a week-long aerospace-medical study of altitude sickness in a mountain hut in the Valais Alps in late August 2016. The aim was to find out whether altitude sickness actually makes the vessel walls permeable to fluid and protein.
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