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Volume 356:1206 March 22, 2007 Number 12
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Emergency Duties and Deaths from Heart Disease among U.S. Firefighters

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National data on deaths among on-duty firefighters between 1994 and 2004 were assessed in relation to estimates of the proportions of time spent by firefighters in various duties. The rate of death from coronary heart disease during active fire suppression was approximately 10 to 100 times as high as the expected rate. This study suggests that firefighting is associated with an unusually high risk of death from cardiac causes.



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