Economy Class Syndrome: Too Much Flying or Too Much Sitting?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2674-2676

  Dalen, James E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

BODY WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; EDITORIAL; FLYING; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SITTING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AIRCRAFT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; SYNDROME; TRAVEL; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0344737937     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.22.2674     Document Type: Editorial

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