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Acute mountain sickness and arterial oxygen saturation

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  1. Institute for Sports Medicine, Alpine Medicine and Health Tourism, UMIT – University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, and Tirol Kliniken Innsbruck, Eduard Wallnöfer Zentrum 1, 6060, Hall, Austria

    Wolfgang Schobersberger & Veronika Leichtfried

  2. Department of Sport Science, Medical Section, University of Innsbruck, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Martin Burtscher

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Schobersberger, W., Burtscher, M. & Leichtfried, V. Acute mountain sickness and arterial oxygen saturation. Sleep Breath 20, 1077–1078 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11325-016-1325-0

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