Exercise testing in servicemen with asthma and its application to the assessment of potential recruits.
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A standard exercise test was performed on defined groups of normal and asthmatic personnel • and recruits with a history of childhood asthma. Normal servicemen had a mean Exercise Lability Index (ELl) of 7.81, and we took an ELl of over 15 to be abnormal. By this criterion we found that 91.7% of service personnel with asthma who could not pass th e army Basic Fitness Test (BFT) were abnormal. Conversely among service personnel with asthma with an ELl above 15 we found 89.8% could not pass the BFT.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
دوره 129 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1983