Does growing up at high altitude pose a risk factor for type 2 diabetes?

• Martin Burtscher,
• Hannes Gatterer,
• Johannes Burtscher

Affiliations

Martin Burtscher

1 Department of Sport Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria 2 Austrian Society for Alpine and Mountain Medicine, Austria

Hannes Gatterer

3 Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy

Johannes Burtscher

4 Laboratory of molecular and chemical biology of neurodegeneration, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland