Medical status of airline pilots over 60 years of age: Japanese experience, 1991-2007

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 5 PART 1, 2009, Pages 462-465

  Kagami, Shino ^a,b   Fukao, Hiroyuki ^a   Fukumoto, Masakatsu ^a   Tsukui, Ippei ^a  

^a Japan Aeromedical Research Center   (Japan)

^b Utility Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Medical certification; Medical fitness; Over sixty rule; Senior pilots

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FATIGUE; FITNESS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AGING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 66949146982     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2387.2009     Document Type: Article

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