Firefighter Heart Presumption retirements in Massachusetts 1997-2004

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1047-1053

  Holder, Jonathan D ^a,b   Stallings, Leonard A ^a   Peeples, Lynne ^b   Burress, John W ^c   Kales, Stefanos N ^a,b  

^a CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DISABILITY; FIRE FIGHTER; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PENSIONER; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SYNCOPE; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY DISEASE; FIRES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, DISABILITY; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33750031269     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000235909.31632.46     Document Type: Article

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