July 2017

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New research links enlarged heart to sudden cardiac events among firefighters Cardiac Enlargement in U.S. Firefighters

It’s widely acknowledged in the fire service that cardiac events account for roughly 45 percent of all firefighter line-of-duty deaths. Autopsy reports showed many of these incidents occurred in people who had underlying heart problems, and most of the research has focused on firefighters with existing coronary heart disease. But this doesn’t tell the bigger… Read more »