Lung function during moderate hypobaric hypoxia in normal subjects and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 979-985

  Dillard, Thomas A ^a,b   Rajagopal, Krishnan R ^b,c   Slivka, William A ^c   Berg, Benjamin W ^d   Mehm, William J ^e   Lawless, Nancy P ^c  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOBARISM; HYPOXIA; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION; LUNG VOLUME; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; LUNG VOLUME MEASUREMENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 0031686842     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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