Frostbite and Mortality in Mountaineering Women: A Scoping Review—UIAA Medical Commission Recommendations
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68407700%3A21460%2F23%3A00380764" target="_blank" >RIV/68407700:21460/23:00380764 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0040" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0040</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ham.2023.0040" target="_blank" >10.1089/ham.2023.0040</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Frostbite and Mortality in Mountaineering Women: A Scoping Review—UIAA Medical Commission Recommendations
Original language description
Kriemler, Susi, Kastė Mateikaitė-Pipirienė, Alison Rosier, Linda E. Keyes, Peter Paal, Marija Andjelkovic, Beth A. Beidleman, Mia Derstine, Jacqueline Pichler Hefti, David Hillebrandt, Lenka Horakova, and Dominique Jean; for the UIAA MedCom Writing Group on Women's Health in the Mountains. Frostbite and mortality in mountaineering women: a scoping review—UIAA Medical Commission recommendations. High Alt Med Biol. 24:247–258, 2023. Background: The harsh environment of high altitudes (HA) poses many serious health risks for mountaineers, including cold injuries and death. The aim of this work was to review whether female mountaineers are at special risk for frostbite or death at HA compared with their male counterparts. Methods: The UIAA Medical Commission convened an international author team to review women's health issues at HA and to publish updated recommendations. Pertinent literature from PubMed and Cochrane was identified with additional publications found by hand search. The primary search focus was for articles assessing cold injuries and death in women mountaineers at HA. Results: We reviewed the literature and identified 20 relevant studies: 2 studies on frostbite at HA, plus 7 studies and 1 report for death at HA. An additional 10 studies about frostbite at low altitude were included. We found that female mountaineers at HA were at lower risk of death than their male counterparts, but sex differences in frostbite were inconclusive. Conclusions: The frequency of cold injuries and mortality in female mountaineers is not yet well studied, and the studies that have been published tend to lack precise exposure data. More studies and registries with sex-differentiated data are needed.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30230 - Other clinical medicine subjects
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
High Altitude Medicine and Biology
ISSN
1527-0297
e-ISSN
1557-8682
Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
247-258
UT code for WoS article
001140189800001
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