Emergency Duties and Deaths from Heart Disease among Firefighters in the United States
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Emergency duties and deaths from heart disease among firefighters in the United States.
BACKGROUND 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. METHODS We reviewed summaries provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the deaths of all on-duty firefighters between 1994 and 2004, except for deaths a...
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عنوان ژورنال: New England Journal of Medicine
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0028-4793,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa060357