Comparisons of altitude tolerance and hypoxia symptoms between nonsmokers and habitual smokers

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 807-811

  Yoneda, Ikuo ^a,c   Watanabe, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Aeromedical Laboratory   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Aeromedical Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SMOKING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ALTITUDE SICKNESS; ANOXIA; CARBOXYHEMOGLOBIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; HANDWRITING; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SMOKING;

EID: 0030922907     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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