Study links high-fat diet, high levels of cholesterol and
triglycerides in blood serum with decompression stress after air dives. (Source: Paper titled “The influence of high-fat
diets on the occurrence of decompression stress after air dives” by Dorota
Kaczerska, Piotr Siermontowski, Romulad Olszanski, et al., in the Undersea and
Hyperbaric Medicine Journal, Vol 40, No 6, Nov/Dec 2013, pp 487-497.)
Overview: 56 divers were studied to see if
there was a correlation between high-fat diet, cholesterol level, triglyceride
level, body mass index, age, and decompression stress after air dives to depths
of 30 and 60 meters (100 and 200 feet).
Conclusions:
“1. High-fat diets have a direct impact on the increasing level of cholesterol
and triglycerides in the blood serum.
They greatly boost the severity of decompression stress after air
hyperbaric exposures and increase the risk of decompression sickness.
"2.
Creating an adequate diet for divers will have a beneficial impact on the
safety of diving.
" 3. In accordance with
this research, body mass index has a smaller impact on the severity of the
decompression stress in comparison with excessive fat intake and lipid levels
in the blood serum.”
About the Life Support Technologies Group (LST)
The Life Support Technologies Group (LST) is a Tarrytown,
NY-based medical and life-support engineering company specializing in Advanced
Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Services to hospitals in the NY, NJ, CT region. LST has been in business for 20 years and
currently provides services to 9 hospitals.
Glenn
Butler, CEO
Life
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