Dr. José Manuel Soria, from the Genomics of Complex Diseases Research Group of the Sant Pau Research Institute – IIB Sant Pau – has participated in a study that evaluates the physiological conditions necessary to remain at high altitudes with or without the help of supplementary oxygen, following the deaths of climbers trying to reach the summit of Everest (8,848 m) last spring. The work has recently been published in the prestigious journal Lancer Respiratory Medicine.
“Breathless and dying on Mount Everest”
