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Editor, Senior Moderator
Salud Publica Mex. 2013 Feb;55(1):92-95.
The impact of altitude on hospitalization and hospital mortality from pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus pneumonia in Mexico.
P?rez-Padilla R, Garc?a-Sancho C, Fern?ndez R, Franco-Marina F, L?pez-Gatell H, Boj?rquez I.
Source
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, M?xico, DF, M?xico.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the effect of altitude of residence on influenza A (H1N1).
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We analyzed 207 135 officially notified of influenza-like illness (ILI) cases, 23 048 hospitalizations and 573 deaths during the first months of the novel pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, to examine if residents of high altitude had more frequently these adverse outcomes.
RESULTS:
Adjusted rates for hospitalization and hospital mortality rates increased with altitude, probably due to hypoxemia.
PMID:
23370263
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23370263
The impact of altitude on hospitalization and hospital mortality from pandemic 2009 influenza A (H1N1) virus pneumonia in Mexico.
P?rez-Padilla R, Garc?a-Sancho C, Fern?ndez R, Franco-Marina F, L?pez-Gatell H, Boj?rquez I.
Source
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, M?xico, DF, M?xico.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To determine the effect of altitude of residence on influenza A (H1N1).
MATERIALS AND METHODS:
We analyzed 207 135 officially notified of influenza-like illness (ILI) cases, 23 048 hospitalizations and 573 deaths during the first months of the novel pandemic influenza A H1N1 virus, to examine if residents of high altitude had more frequently these adverse outcomes.
RESULTS:
Adjusted rates for hospitalization and hospital mortality rates increased with altitude, probably due to hypoxemia.
PMID:
23370263
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23370263