Tibetan migrants living in an urban environment at low altitude show higher resting systolic blood pressures and more gradual increases in systolic blood pressure during exercise than do Tibetan migrants and Sherpas living at high altitude. Exercise differences are probably related to variations in activity pattern. Resting differences are probably not due to altitude or morphology; but are more likely associated with Western influences on diet and lifestyle. © 1982.

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