High Altitude Pulmonary & Pathology Institute (IPPA)

by Prof. Dr. Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja On Nov 14th, 2006, I visited the Centre for Cardiovascular Research of the Czech Republic Academy of Sciences at Prague. I was very favorably impressed with the long standing pioneer work on the protective effect of chronic hypoxia with regards to myocardial infarction. After the publications of Hurtado in Peru(1950) affirming a lower incidence of myocardial infarction in people living at altitude, Kopecky and Daum (1958) and Poupa (1966) performed … Read entire article »