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Table 3.

Prevalence of acute mountain sickness (AMS).

Author	Location	Altitude (m)	AMS
Maggiorini ⁵	Alps	2,85o	9%
		3,050	13%
		3,650	34%
		4,559	53%
Dean ⁷	Colorado	2,987	42%
Honigman ³	Colorado	2,000–3,000	25%
Vardy ⁴	Nepal	3,000–4,000	10%
		4,000–4,500	15%
		4,500–5,000	51%
		0ver 5,000	34%
Karinen ⁶	Kilimanjaro	2,743	9%
		3,760	44%
		4,730	58%

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2011 January; 2(1): e0022. ISSN: 2076-9172

Published online 2011 January 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10022.