Relationship between age and susceptibility to altitude decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 695-698

  Sulaiman, Zahid M ^a   Pilmanis, Andrew A ^a   O'Connor, Robert B ^a  

^a Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; FLIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OBESITY;

EID: 0030761784     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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