| Show ALTITUDES AND HEART DISEASE THE RISK KISK WHICH SOME PEOPLE RUN HS OF THE HIGHER LEVELS the medical journal has just reported a paper read before the american climatological association by dr A L loomis or ol this city which may be of vital importance to many people proposing to visit cibit mountain resorts the coming summer lr dr loomis details lour cases in which heart disease was as broughton brough tou by a change irom from a lower to a hillier altitude two of these cases were persons going to st regis lake in the adirondacks at an all elevation of only 2000 feet feel one was that of a visitor to the catskill mountains and the fourth hail gone to colorado a relief relict was afforded them by a return to lower levels they all lied died within four or five weeks As the result of his experience in twenty six cases dr loomis concludes that the risks which one with even slight light cardiac iu sufficiency runs by passing aiom a lower to a higher attitude altitude is certainly very great and it the insufficiency re be extensive such change immediately dangerous 11 abib conclusion stroll strongly ly supported as it is by dr loomis data is especially important when it is remembered that cardaio insufficiency may exist in those who give no evidence of it while at or mode moderately ratel near the sea level it is well known that a sojourn at attle tle high I 1 resorts of the swiss aws is con tra indicated for pet pei sons suffering from diseases of the brain beart or the large vessels the change in the blood is due to deficiency of oxygen calculation wilt will show that ordinarily at an attitude altitude of only 2000 feet 48 grains less of oxygen are inhaled than at t sea level would alone explain the perils penis which many people incur by exchanging tide water tor fur high mountain ad air ir N Y kerald herald |
