How to stay healthy when you fly, from your heart to your lungs and sinuses
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For the most part, planes are a great way to travel, health experts say.
'Overall, it's a very safe mode of transport,' says Dr Leigh Speicher, an aerospace medicine specialist who is president of the US Civil Aviation Medical Association.
But commercial air travel does come with some health baggage.
Issues range from simple stress to complex physiologic changes that can affect the heart, blood vessels and brain-heart axis, says Dr Laurence Sperling, a professor in preventive cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, in the US state of Georgia.
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Here is what the doctors say you can do to stay healthy in the skies.
Beware of the air?
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