Overview
High Altitude Medicine & Biology is the first peer-reviewed journal focused exclusively on the latest advances in high altitude life sciences, and is the primary source of information for clinicians, physiologists, and researchers studying the effects of reduced atmospheric pressure and oxygen deprivation. The Journal delivers critical findings on the impact of high altitude on lung and heart disease, appetite and weight loss, pulmonary and cerebral edema, hypertension, dehydration, infertility, and other diseases. It covers the full spectrum of high altitude life sciences from pathology to human and animal ecology.
High Altitude Medicine & Biology coverage includes:
- Physiology
- Pulmonology and cardiology
- Comparative and evolutionary biology
- Pharmacology
- Anthropology
- Pathogenesis
High Altitude Medicine & Biology is under the editorial leadership of Editor-in-Chief John B. West, MD, PhD, University of California, San Diego, Department of Medicine; Associate Editors Hermann Brugger, MD; Andrew M. Luks, MD; and other leading investigators. View the entire editorial board.
Audience: Clinicians, cell biologists, physiologists, evolutionary biologists, environmental medicine specialists, respiratory and pulmonology specialists, among others
Society Affiliation
The Official Journal of the International Society for Mountain Medicine
Members of the society can access the e-journal via the "Members Only" section of the society website.
The views, opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations set forth in any
Journal article are solely those of the authors of those articles and do not necessarily
reflect the views, policy or position of the Journal, its Publisher, its editorial
staff or any affiliated Societies and should not be attributed to any of them.