About the Authors

Jameson D. Voss

jameson.voss@us.af.mil

Affiliations Epidemiology Consult Division, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

David B. Allison

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition and Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Bryant J. Webber

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Trainee Health Surveillance, Joint Base San Antonio – Lackland, Lackland, Texas, United States of America

Jean L. Otto

Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leslie L. Clark

Affiliations Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States of America, General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

JDV intends to participate in development, evaluation, and/or patenting of device(s) related to altitude simulation for the US government within the next five years. This disclosure does not alter the authors’ adherence with PLoS policies on data sharing and the other authors declare they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JDV LLC DBA JLO. Analyzed the data: JDV LLC DBA JLO BJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JDV LLC. Wrote the paper: JDV BJW DBA JLO LLC.