Review of cardiac events in USAF aviators

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1023-1027

  Osswald, Sandra ^a,b   Miles, Ralph ^a   Nixon, William ^a   Celio, Paul ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AIR FORCE; AIRPLANE PILOT; ANGINA PECTORIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; REVIEW; SMOKING; SUDDEN DEATH;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

ANGINA;

EID: 0029803881     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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