Controversies in the medical clearance of recreational scuba divers: Updates on asthma, diabetes mellitus, coronary artery disease, and patent foramen ovale

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 275-281

  Harrison, David ^a   Lloyd Smith, Rob ^a   Khazei, Afshin ^a   Hunte, Garth ^a   Lepawsky, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIVING; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW;

ASTHMA; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIVING; GUIDELINES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 33644874722     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CSMR.0000306222.19714.33     Document Type: Article

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