Lower body adynamia as a factor to reduce the risk of hypobaric decompression sickness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 202-214

  Conkin, J ^a   Powell, M R ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Extravehicular activity; Logistic regression; Micronuclei; Probability models; Survival analysis; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BODY MOVEMENT; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EXERCISE; GAS EMBOLISM; HYPOBARISM; SPACE FLIGHT; WALKING;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH;

CARDIAC VOLUME; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN; ODDS RATIO; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035091439     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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