Gender not a factor for altitude decompression sickness risk

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 2-10

  Webb, James T ^a   Kannan, Nandini ^b   Andrew A Pilmanis, ^c  

^a WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Altitude decompression sickness; Body mass index; Fitness; Gender; Menstrual cycle; Venous gas emboli

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FITNESS; GAS EMBOLISM; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGENATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIMULATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGE FACTORS; ALTITUDE; ATMOSPHERE EXPOSURE CHAMBERS; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; DECOMPRESSION SICKNESS; EMBOLISM, AIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0037223784     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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