Outcome of hospital deliveries of women living at high altitude: a study from Lhasa in Tibet.

Aim: To describe rates of neonatal mortality, low birthweight (LBW), preterm birth and small for gestational age (SGA), and relate outcome to ethnicity and perinatal risk factors of liveborn infants of hospital deliveries in Lhasa. The differences in these variables between ethnic Tibetans and non-Tibetans were also studied.

Methods: Data were prospectively collected on the outcome of all liveborn infants born in four hospitals in the urban area of Lhasa, Tibet, in 2005.

The dietary habits of non-asthmatic schoolchildren in Lhasa, Tibet.

The occurrence of asthma symptoms and food consumption frequencies in 13- to 14-year-old schoolchildren was investigated in Lhasa, Tibet (3,658 meters above sea level). A total of 99.2% of the schoolchildren reported that they had not experienced any wheezing during the prior 12 months.