Emergency duties and deaths from heart disease among firefighters in the United States.

Kales, Stefanos N.; Soteriades, Elpidoforos S; Christophi, Costas A; Christiani, David C

doi:10.1056/NEJMoa060357

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Emergency duties and deaths from heart disease among firefighters in the United States.

Author(s): Stefanos N Kales, Elpidoforos S Soteriades, Costas A Christophi, David C Christiani

Publication date: 2007-03-22

Journal: The New England journal of medicine

Publisher: Massachusetts Medical Society

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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.

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