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Physiology & Medicine / Do airline pilots have more haemoglobin?
« on: 20/05/2010 17:40:49 »
Hi Chris,
let me add a note to this interesting thread.
I think that altitude (1500meters) and related lower pressure should not be a major problem for pilots and their hemoglobin:
more troubles may come from the fast change of pressure during takeoffs and landings.
Passengers, even "frequent flyers", are not exposed so heavily like pilots and crews to this peculiar kind of stress.
Brisk and repeated pressure changes could hypothetically increase chances of embolism, if tiny bubbles of air manage to reach the brain through an abnormal communication between the right and left atriums (atria?) of the heart...
Is it just fantasy?
The discussion is open.
iko
let me add a note to this interesting thread.
I think that altitude (1500meters) and related lower pressure should not be a major problem for pilots and their hemoglobin:
more troubles may come from the fast change of pressure during takeoffs and landings.
Passengers, even "frequent flyers", are not exposed so heavily like pilots and crews to this peculiar kind of stress.
Brisk and repeated pressure changes could hypothetically increase chances of embolism, if tiny bubbles of air manage to reach the brain through an abnormal communication between the right and left atriums (atria?) of the heart...
Is it just fantasy?
The discussion is open.
iko