ReviewObesity facts2017
Obesity as a Conditioning Factor for High-Altitude Diseases.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Women Exposed to High Altitude.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Intermittent exposure to high-altitude work: nocturnal hypoxemia sea-level anthropometric and biochemical markers.Sleep & breathing = Schlaf & Atmung · 2026Article
- Heart rate, blood pressure, and SpOPhysiological reports · 2026Article
- Acute high-altitude illness: risk factors, susceptibility prediction, and personalized prevention and treatment.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- AZU1 (HBP/CAP37) and PRKCG (PKC-gamma) may be candidate genes affecting the severity of acute mountain sickness.BMC medical genomics · 2023Article
- Proteomic analysis reveals proteins and pathways associated with declined testosterone production in male obese mice after chronic high-altitude exposure.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Physiological Responses at Rest and Exercise to High Altitude in Lowland Children and Adolescents.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Hypoxic Exercise Exacerbates Hypoxemia and Acute Mountain Sickness in Obesity: A Case Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Oxygen Supply System Management in an Overweight Adult after 12 Months in Antarctica-Study Case.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Cardiovascular Indicators of Systemic Circulation and Acute Mountain Sickness: An Observational Cohort Study.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Oxidative Stress, Kinase Activity and Inflammatory Implications in Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Heart Failure under Hypobaric Hypoxia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Lower Body Weight in Rats Under Hypobaric Hypoxia Exposure Would Lead to Reduced Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Increased AMPK Activation.Frontiers in physiology · 2020Article
- Association betweenGenes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2019Article
- Long-Term Intermittent Work at High Altitude: Right Heart Functional and Morphological Status and Associated Cardiometabolic Factors.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Article
- Putative Role of Respiratory Muscle Training to Improve Endurance Performance in Hypoxia: A Review.Frontiers in physiology · 2018Review
- Involvement of overweight and lipid metabolism in the development of pulmonary hypertension under conditions of chronic intermittent hypoxia.Pulmonary circulationArticle
- Effect of mild obstructive sleep apnea in mountaineers during the climb to Mount Aconcagua.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Article
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Abstract
Obesity, a worldwide epidemic, has become a major health burden because it is usually accompanied by an increased risk for insulin resistance, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, and even some kinds of cancer. It also results in associated increases in healthcare expenditures and labor and economic consequences. There are also other fields of medicine and biology where obesity or being overweight play a major role, such as high-altitude illnesses (acute mountain sickness, hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, and chronic mountain sickness), where an increasing relationship among these two morbid statuses has been demonstrated. This association could be rooted in the interactions between obesity-related metabolic alterations and critical ventilation impairments due to obesity, which would aggravate hypobaric hypoxia at high altitudes, leading to hypoxemia, which is a trigger for developing high-altitude diseases. This review examines the current literature to support the idea that obesity or overweight could be major conditioning factors at high altitude.
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