Pulmonary function in military divers: Smoking habits and physical fitness training influence

Military Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1071-1075

  Sekulic, Damir ^a   Tocilj, Jadranka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SPLIT   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVER; DIVING; EXHALATION; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FEMALE; FITNESS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; SMOKING; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 33751088263     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.171.11.1071     Document Type: Article

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