Fourteen French and Italian scientists will study the population of gold mines in La Rinconada (Peru), the world’s tallest city in January, in search of the limits of human body adaptation.
Although it is generally considered that permanent human life is no more than 5 000 m possible, the population of La Rinconada is a real challenge for knowledge, “one of the researchers said at the meeting. N Press conference at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research.
Over 50,000 residents live throughout the year under extreme conditions in this remote town, developed as a result of mining activity in the last two decades, nearly 5,300 meters high in the Peruvian Andes.
However, a significant proportion of residents show difficulties in tolerating the oxygen deficiency (twice rare at this level at sea level) and develops specific pathologies that the medical team will try to identify and treat .
Headache, neurological problems (vertigo), tingling, sleep disturbances or palpitations that these workers suffer, are symptoms of chronic mountain disease, also called Monge’s disease, called after Peruvian doctor Carlos Monge Medrano, who made the first scientific description in the early twentieth century.
Source: manchikoni.com
