Review of NASA's Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (2004) / Chapter Skim
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In 1980, they convened a panel of eminent epidemiologists to help design a protocol for retrospectively examining basic physiological data from the relatively small number of astronauts who had flown in space by then and comparing those data with similar data from a group of ground-based employees selected retrospectively to match the living astronauts. However, the current prospective study, the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (LSAH)
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In early fall of the same year, NASA's Chief Health and Medical Officer wrote a letter to the IOM project officer that described some tentative findings from a recent analysis of the LSAH database by JSC scientists and requested that CAMMEE examine the LSAH and make appropriate medical, scientific, and administrative recommendations for improving the study, as well as recommendations relative to the data trends identified to date. CAMMEE in turn organized the present Committee on the Longitudinal Study of Astronaut Health (CLSAH)
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This includes both pilots and mission specialists, who have been career astronauts, but not the 27 American payload specialists who generally are scientists or engineers who fly only a single mission and return to their preflight career immediately afterward (five have flown on two missions, and one on three missions)
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These evaluations consist of a medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, medical images, and other diagnostic tests. All other JSC employees were offered similar evaluations annually prior to 1994, but now they are offered to them only every three years.
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Reports and documentation of interim medical care are obtained as part of the evaluation in order to document relevant morbidity information on the examination form. Other study data are obtained from interim visits to the JSC clinics for sick calls, reports from consultants and private physicians, and hospital discharge reports (Hamm et al., 2000; Wear, 2003)
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Every 3 years Never Exercise tolerance Age-specific intervals Age-specific intervals 51+ = annually test (85% max) (US Preventive Ser- (US Preventive Services Comparisons vices Task Force Task Force Guidelines)
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To meet its objectives, the Executive Committee · reviews and approves all requests for LSAH data before releasing any data from the study database · reviews and approves any presentation or publication of the data · maintains a permanent file of all requests and the subsequent actions regarding each request The Executive Committee consists of the · NASA LSAH Technical Monitor · Chief, Flight Medicine Clinic
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Intramural data requests are categorized into those for research, clinical care, or operational purposes. Research questions may be submitted by JSC civil servants in the Space Life Sciences Directorate.
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