Acclimatization to chronic intermittent hypoxia in mine workers: a challenge to mountain medicine in Chile
In the past two decades, Chile has developed intense mining activity in the Andes mountain range, whose altitude is over 4,000 meters above sea level. It is estimated that a workforce population of over 55,000 is exposed to high altitude hypobaric hypoxia. The miners work under shift systems which v...
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Sociedad de Biología de Chile
2013
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602013000100009 |
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