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Highland areas 3,000 m above sea level are called plateaus, and air pressure and oxygen partial pressure are relatively lower here than in the plains. Hypoxia occurs when people enter highland areas a short time after living in the plains, or after having originally lived in high altitude regions but stayed in the plains for a period of time. When they return to the highland area, they suffer from headache , dizziness , cardiopalmus, and shortness of breath. Some people even suffer from decreased food appetite, nausea, vomiting, insomnia, fatigue, abdominal distension, tightness of the chest, cyanotic lips, and limb numbness. The pathogenesis involves the slowing of oxygen exchange between the atmosphere and alveolar gas and of oxygen release from the blood, which causes organism hypoxia and high altitude sickness.
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Zhu, G., Han, K., Luo, R. (2015). Effect of Dantonic™ on Prevention of High Altitude Myocardial Hypoxidosis. In: Yan, X. (eds) Dan Shen (Salvia miltiorrhiza) in Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9466-4_13
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