Female acceleration tolerance: Effects of menstrual state and physical condition

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 525-530

  Heaps, Cristine L ^a,c   Fischer, Michele D ^a   Hill, Ronald C ^b  

^a KRUG Life Sciences Inc   (United States)

^b USAF Armstrong Laboratory Brooks AFB   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; EXHAUSTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENSTRUATION; MILITARY MEDICINE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION;

ACCELERATION; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; BODY COMPOSITION; CENTRIFUGATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0030967610     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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