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It is difficult to stop bleeding from a cut in human body at high altitude. Why?

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At high altitudes, the atmospheric pressure is lesser, due to greater difference in blood pressure and the atmospheric pressure, ti stop the bleeding from a cut in the body at high altitude is found to be difficult.
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