title: Fitness to fly: experts prefer 'why not?' to 'don't'.
abstract: A new attempt to clarify guidelines for advising cardiovascular patients when they can fly emphasizes that the aircraft cabin poses no major health threat and that the stability of the condition is a key factor in giving advice, reports Barry Shurlock, PhD.
mesh_terms: D000337:Aerospace Medicine; D000401:Aircraft; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D010809:Physical Fitness; D012307:Risk Factors