Health benefits of residence at moderate altitude do not reduce covid-19 mortality

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Johannes Burtscher et al. from the Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland have published the Article: Health Benefits of Residence at Moderate Altitude Do Not Reduce COVID-19 Mortality, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 20/Nov/2022
• what: The authors aimed to assess altitude-dependent mortality data (overall and from COVID-19) of the entire Austrian population in 2020.

SUMMARY

Residence of populations at high altitude environments (>2500 m) for many generations is associated with substantial adaptations (in particular related to oxygen delivery) to cope with altitude . . .

 



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