Reduction in Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease in men Living at High Altitude

Researchers

Edward A. Mortimer Jn, M.D.

Richard R. Monson, M.D.

Brian MacMahon, M.D.

Results

In New Mexico where inhabitants live between 914 metres and 2135 metres above sea-level, the relative age-adjusted death rates from arteriosclerotic heart disease for white males is lower at altitude than death rates experienced at sea-level.

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