Colorado Rocky Mountain low-----More visitors than locals died in Summit County last year, coroner report says | SummitDaily.com

More visitors than locals died in Summit County last year, coroner report says | SummitDaily.com: "The Summit County coroner recorded a total of 82 deaths last year, according to the office's 2016 annual report.
That's down slightly from 2015, which saw an all-time record of 87 cases, but still up significantly from 60 deaths in 2014.
Visitors to Summit County accounted for more deaths than locals for the first time since 2010.
...As of last Friday, 13 people had died in the county so far this year, including two skier deaths and one undetermined cause. The rest were ruled natural.
..Among those, the most common cause of death was cardiac-related, which Wood said reflected the toll that high elevation can take on the body — and the circulatory system in particular.
Wood said that in several such cases involving non-residents last year, the deceased had been cleared by their home doctors to travel to high elevations but still succumbed to fatal cardiac events.
In one case, she said, an elderly person passed a heart "stress test" at sea level but died of a sudden cardiac event during her first day in Summit.
"We find that doctors around the country aren't too aware of the effects on a person's system of being at altitude," Wood said.
"They're fine at sea level, and then they come up here and their condition changes..."