Hemoglobin concentration of young men at residential altitudes between 200 and 2000 m mirrors Switzerland's topography

Blood. 2020 Mar 26;135(13):1066-1069. doi: 10.1182/blood.2019004135.

Kaspar Staub^{1

2}, Martin Haeusler¹, Nicole Bender¹, Irina Morozova¹, Patrick Eppenberger¹, Radoslaw Panczak³, Marcel Zwahlen⁴, Dominik J Schaer^{2

5}, Marco Maggiorini^{2

6}, Silvia Ulrich^{2

7}, Norina N Gassmann^{1

2}, Martina U Muckenthaler^{8

9

10}, Frank Rühli^{1

2}, Max Gassmann^{2

11

12}

¹ Institute of Evolutionary Medicine and.
² Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Division of Internal Medicine.
⁶ Medical Intensive Care Unit, and.
⁷ Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁸ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology and.
⁹ Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, German Center for Lung Research, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁰ Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹¹ Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru; and.
¹² Institute of Veterinary Physiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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