Emergency Duties and Deaths from Heart Disease among Firefighters in the United States
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- 22 March 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 356 (12), 1207-1215
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa060357
Abstract
Heart disease causes 45% of the deaths that occur among U.S. firefighters while they are on duty. We examined duty-specific risks of death from coronary heart disease among on-duty U.S. firefighters from 1994 to 2004.Keywords
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