Conditioning Military Women for Optimal Performance: Effects of Contraceptive Use
Abstract
It is important that an encounter with simultaneous multiple stressors has been recognized as a prominent etiologic factor in military casualties (23,53). The goal of this study was to provide information to reduce complications associated with stressful environments and therefore decrease casualties in military women. Comprehensive information about the health of military women facing multiple stressors is not currently available. This study was designed to clarify the ability of exercise training and heat acclimation to minimize the effects of multiple stressors on (a) exercise responses in the heat while dehydrated, (b)immunocompetence, and (c) hormone levels. Three groups of young women participated in all health and hormone screening procedures, eight weeks of physical training/heat acclimation, and exercise-heat tolerance testing. Members of each of these three groups (oral contraceptive users, n = 15; injectable contraceptive users of Depo Provera, n =7; and control subjects who were eumenorrheic and ovulatory, n = 14) were tested during this 3-year study.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA387322
Entities
People
- Lawrence E. Armstrong
Organizations
- University of Connecticut