Female exposure to high G: Echocardiographic evaluation for chronic changes in cardiac function

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 857-861

  Albery, William B ^a   Ten Eyck, Raymond P ^a   Wolfe, Mark ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Wright Patterson Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AIR FORCE; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; MALE; MAST SUIT; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CENTRIFUGATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; INSERVICE TRAINING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

EID: 0031667927     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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