Risk factors for recruit exertional heat illness by gender and training period

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 415-421

  Wallace, Robert F ^a   Kriebel, David ^b   Punnett, Laura ^b   Wegman, David H ^b   Wenger, C Bruce ^a   Gardner, John W ^c   Kark, John A ^d  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Body mass index; Case control study; Epidemiology; Exercise; Fitness; Heat exhaustion; Heat stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENDER; HEAT STROKE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33645703440     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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