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  • Title: Disease prevention strategies for Army aviators: clues from a descriptive analysis of the flying duty medical examination.
    Author: Sienko DG, Atchison A, Higdon AA.
    Journal: Mil Med; 1992 May; 157(5):236-8. PubMed ID: 1630654.
    Abstract:
    The U.S. government spends approximately $300,000 to train an Army aviator. Maintaining a healthy aviator population is important not only to the completion of the aviation mission, but also for budgetary reasons. We reviewed Army aviator physical examinations and self-reported risk behavior questionnaires from the Aeromedical Epidemiological Data Repository at Fort Rucker, Alabama, to assess aviator health. Overall, aviators are healthy adults; however, the health status of aviators can be improved by reducing tobacco use, limiting cholesterol and fat intake, and wearing hearing protection devices both during and off duty.
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