drinking alcohol on airplanes is harmful
A recent article assessed the impact of moderate alcohol consumption in people on long-haul airplane flights (see alcohol dec ox sat in plane thorax2024 in dropbox, or doi:10.1136/thorax-2023-220998). Details : -- two groups of healthy individuals spent two nights with a 4-hour sleep opportunity in a sleep laboratory -- control group: 23 individuals, under conditions of normobaric normoxia at 53 m altitude corresponding to air pressure of 1010 hPa -- In-Flight Group: 17 individuals, in simulated crew-rest compartment in the altitude chamber corresponding to air pressure decreased to 753 hPa, simulating the minimal pressure inside an airplane cabin at cruising altitude; there was also realistic noise that had been recorded in a prior flight (70 db(A)) -- these two groups were assessed one night without any alcohol consumption and one night with recent alcohol consumption -- the amount of alcohol wa...