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Study of the Effects of Commercial Air Travel on the Lungs

NCT01420224 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 9

Last updated 2011-08-19

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The study hypothesis is that commercial air travel causes an increase in the blood pressure in the lungs (pulmonary artery pressure) that can be clinically relevant. Portable echocardiography (heart ultrasound) now offers a non-invasive means of studying this in-flight.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteers
  • Chuvash Polycythaemia

Interventions

OTHER

Commercial airline flight

Normal scheduled passenger flight

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oxford

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Thomas Smith, MBBS DPhil FRCA · University of Oxford

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-05-31
Primary Completion
2011-06-30
Completion
2011-06-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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