Sentence examples for before ascent from inspiring English sources
In addition, the prophylactic use of the diuretic acetazolamide initiated two to three days before ascent may prevent or mitigate acute altitude sickness.
Gender, age, weight, height, and fitness index (determined using a 3-minute step test) were recorded at sea level before ascent.
Included studies were required to state the administered dose of acetazolamide and to randomise participants before ascent to either acetazolamide or placebo.
The second limitation is that half of the participants had a rescheduled second trip and they therefore took the study medication (or placebo) for 7 days before ascent and then on the first morning of ascent, for 8 days.
The reasons for withdrawal included interim business trips (n = 4); infections before ascent (n = 4, 3 with upper respiratory tract infection, 1 with leg cellulitis); illness of a girlfriend (n = 1); missed departure due to oversleeping (n = 1); and postponement of the second trip (n = 6 because of work shift problems and 5 due to scheduled travel abroad).
Healthy adult volunteers were randomized to 2 treatment sequences, receiving either 800 mg R. crenulata extract or placebo daily for 7 days before ascent and 2 days during mountaineering, before crossing over to the alternate treatment after a 3-month wash-out period.
The most interesting parts of the book deal with the human side of a man who was little known before his ascent to power and widely misunderstood both before and after.
Nocturnal cough frequency increased with increasing altitude and when the subjects descended to 5000 m to recuperate before the ascent to the "summit," the cough frequency fell before increasing again on ascent to 8000 m.
His secular notion of identity has withered before the ascent of sectarian and religious forces.
At Connecticut College days before the ascent, Ms. Cohen reflected on the climb to come.
Before each ascent, they make offerings of coca leaves to the peaks they depend on for their livelihood.
