title: Disease prevention strategies for Army aviators: clues from a descriptive analysis of the flying duty medical examination.
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.
authors.affiliation: 1-238 AVN REGT, Michigan Army National Guard, Grand Ledge.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Sienko
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atchison
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Higdon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001359:Aviation; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation