A study of the health effects of flying found that volunteers exposed to simulated airline cabin environments — including volunteers who were elderly or ill — showed no signs of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT)1 or other forms of “passenger distress” as a result of the simulated flights.2
A report on the study — published in the July issue of Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, the journal of the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) — said that researchers in England and Germany found “no significant symptoms or adverse effects” among the hundreds of study participants.
“Commercial air travel is … usually without health incidents, even among the elderly and those with health problems,” the report said.
The findings generally supported AsMA’s position that “there is no unique factor in the air travel cabin environment that has been shown to have any effect” on venous thrombosis, and that “any form of travel…
