Firefighters and on-duty deaths from coronary heart disease: A case control study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-13

  Kales, Stefanos N ^a,b   Soteriades, Elpidoforos S ^a,b   Christoudias, Stavros G ^a   Christiani, David C ^b,c,d  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Northeast Specialty Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; FIRE FIGHTER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NIGHT WORK; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUDDEN DEATH; WORKING TIME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FIRE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESCUE WORK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FIRES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESCUE WORK; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE;

EID: 3042670850     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-2-1     Document Type: Article

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