Have you ever heard of ski sickness? This little-known condition is akin to motion sickness and seasickness. Here’s what we ...

alumni.ubc.ca Purpose The goal of this meta-analysis was to determine the clinical utility of acute mountain sickness (AMS) history to predict future incidents of AMS. Method 17 studies (n=7921 ...

New data identifies two key risk factors for high-altitude pulmonary edema, a leading cause of death on the mountain.

There are three types of altitude sickness. First, there is acute mountain sickness (AMS). This is the most common form, and ...

All other variables examined, that is, resting heart rate, heart rate variability and psychometric questionnaires were less powerful at predicting sickness. Living and training at high altitude ...

Ideally, you’d like to have a better sense of the risk factors and warning signs that signal the difference between run-on-the-hill acute mountain sickness and more severe forms of altitude ...

Altitude sickness, also called acute mountain sickness, arises when your body doesn't adjust quickly to lower oxygen levels at higher elevations. The higher you go, the thinner the air ...