European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Cutting blood subject of simulator sickness is Well known to people like instructor Pilot Sharon Snow left Pilot Felicia French battalion aviation safety office Roger fix and Tracy Wyatt flight operations officer. The simulator. The policy to restrict pilots from flying. Aircraft for periods ranging from six to 24 hours after a simulator session was implemented As a precautionary measure and is not an indication that simulator sickness is a widespread serious problem Matteson said. A. Quot we Don t think its much of a problem but we think its real Quot he said Quot to avoid any problems we do what we re doing now. We can to afford to have  neither Matteson nor Stevenson knew of any instances where simulator sickness interfered with a Pilot s performance during actual flight. There is no Way to predict who is susceptible to simulator sickness. Neither Are there any figures indicating How Many pilots Are affected Matteson said adding that people who suffer seriously from simulator sickness probably would not make it through the Entrance training programs for pilots. 11. Pilots can become acclimated to the simulator the More they use it allowing them to spend longer periods behind the screen before experiencing symptoms of simulator sickness. But pilots who spend a lot of time using simulators can become too acclimated to them adapting to stimuli that Are not present in real aircraft. The strategies they use to adapt can be dangerous in actual flight according to the times article. Symptoms of the syndrome can be prevented or lessened by eating Well being Well rested before starting a simulator session and taking Breaks while using the simulator Matteson said. Starting a session exhausted and in poor shape could Worsen the problem. The anxiety associated with being graded for ones performance and being observed by ones Peers might contribute to a Pilot experiencing the syndrome he said. French said she drinks a lot of fluids before using the simulator takes frequent Breaks and stops when she is not feeling Well. These Steps help delay or Lessen the symptoms but do not prevent them from occurring. Quot i be tried everything Quot she said. By Gina Kolata new York times f or the first time researchers have found evidence that reducing blood pressure. Reduces the risk of heart disease. Fra study published in the current Issue of the British medical journal lancet investigators report that for every five to six Points that a person s blood pressure is reduced the risk of heart disease declines by 20 percent to 25 percent and the risk of stroke by 30 percent to 40 percent. Previous studies had shown that when people take drugs to reduce High blood pressure the risk of stroke goes Down. And it was Well demonstrated that people with High blood pressure were More Likley to have a heart attack. But no one had been Able to show that reducing blood pressure reduced the risk of heart attack. In addition said or. Charlesh Hennekens a researcher at the Brigham and women a Hospital in Boston and a member of the study team the analysis showed Quot the most significant stroke reduction Ever Quot As blood pressure was lowered the new analysis which combines data from 37,000 people who participated in 14 studies in which drugs were Given to reduce their blood pressure shows that th6 benefits of reducing blood pressure hold True even for a person with Only modestly elevated pressure. People whose diastolic blood pressure a measure of the pressure when the heart relaxes Between beats was a modest 90 Millimetres of Mercury 10 Millimetres above Normal benefited by the same percentage reduction in Hajj disease and stroke risk As those whose blood pressure was higher. The study was conducted by an International group of researchers including or. Rory Collins and or. Richard Peto of Oxford University in England and Hennekens. Or. Claude Lenfant director of the National heart lung and blood Institute in Bethesda md., said that until now Quot we never had any evidence that controlling blood pressure would in fact reduce the risk of heart disease Quot even though most doctors intuitively believed in such a connection. Lenfant said the new findings should prove to be Quot a very Strong reinforcement to reduce blood pressure Quot adding Quot i think it is a very major  / us cd o if o o cd co Lii q. Cd co o z it co cult it stars and stripes bookstores stars and stripes bookstores american landscape regular Price j39 95 our Price 179.95a $10 super Saver discount a a. A american landscape is a stars and stripes super Saver selection for july. 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