Risk factors for foot blisters during road marching: Tobacco use, ethnicity, foot type, previous illness, and other factors

Military Medicine

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 92-97

  Knapik, Joseph J ^a   Reynolds, Katy ^a   Barson, John ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BLISTER; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FLATFOOT; FOOT DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING; WALKING;

EID: 0344528006     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/164.2.92     Document Type: Article

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