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- Title
Urinary Catecholamine Responses in F-15 Pilots: Evaluation of the Stress Induced by Long-Distance Flights.
- Authors
Ohrui, Nobuhiro; Kanazawa, Fumiko; Takeuchi, Yoshinori; Otsuka, Yasutami; Tarui, Hideo; Miyamoto, Yoshinori
- Abstract
Included in the Cooperative Cope Thunder exercises from Japan to Alaska is one of the longest distance flight missions carried out by Japan Air-Self Defense Force F-15 pilots. The magnitude of the flight stress of these pilots is considered to be quite high. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the flight stress induced by the long-distance flights. The subjects were eight pilots who participated on a volunteer basis. Samples of urine were collected ~30 minutes before (preflight) and 20 minutes after (postflight) the flights. The ratios (post-:preflight) of noradrenaline levels were 1.20 ± 0.09 (Japan-Alaska) and 1.32 ± 0.12 (Alaska-Japan), and those of adrenaline were 4.03 ± 1.06 and 3.68 ± 0.98. These results strongly suggest that psychological stress during the long-distance flights is increased in the fighter pilots.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CATECHOLAMINES; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; AERONAUTICAL flights; FIGHTER pilots; URINE
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2008, Vol 173, Issue 6, p594
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7205/MILMED.173.6.594