The Estadio BBVA in Monterrey is actually closer to sea level than the two other Mexican host cities Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images It was 1969 and Joao Saldanha was on the search.

At last, you’ve arrived in Cuzco, Peru — you’re ready for your dream trek to Machu Picchu. There’s just one problem: You can barely catch your breath, your stomach is churning and, in the morning, ...

On the left, some of the subjects—call them super responders—saw a drop of more than 20 mmHg. On the right, we have some non-responders, and even some negative responders, whose blood pressure ...

The term “high-altitude illness” is used to describe the cerebral and pulmonary syndromes that can develop in unacclimatized persons shortly after ascent to high altitude. Acute mountain sickness and ...

Clinicians and patients may be unaware of these concerns, and patients may either proceed with travel in the face of unrecognized risks or be overly cautious and forgo travel when it is actually ...

This month’s issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise features a debate on the merits of “hypoxic training”—that is, training in the thin air of real or simulated altitude for the purposes of ...

Training or living at altitude is a tactic many cyclists use to improve their physiology and prepare for races at altitude. In recent years, more research has been carried out on the subject and ...

Sildenafil (Viagra) significantly improved the cardiovascular and exercise performance measures of trained cyclists at high altitude, mostly because the drug helped some participants improve a lot ...

Despite the limited research on the effects of altitude (or hypoxic) training interventions on team-sport performance, players from all around the world engaged in these sports are now using altitude ...