[Relationship of insulin dependent metabolic disorders to efficiency of intensive operator's work].

The purpose was to state correlation between insulin-dependent metabolic disorders and efficiency of intensive operator's work. The investigation included 12-hr mission on a flight simulator performed by 50 normal (aged 23-36) flight-qualified pilots. Increase in the number of erroneous actions was in direct correlation with insulin (r = 0.74, p < 0.01) and in reverse correlation with glucose incretion (r = -0.594, p < 0.01) and STH (r = -0.90, p < 0.006). Metabolic tests (glucose and insulin) showed that psychoemotional loading due to the intensive operator's duties led to early fatigue and sharp straining of tissue structures in people with dysregulatory disorders in insulin metabolism. The psychoemotional loading may also provoke dysregulatory disorders and development of insulin-dependent disturbances.