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Cindy Devone-Pacheco, FireRescue's Blog – March 2009 Archive (1)
FEMA Heart Study: A lesson in situational awareness
By now, we’ve all read or heard about the preliminary results from the FEMA-sponsored study that found one third of firefighters had heart disease that was unrelated to traditional risk factors, such as high cholesterol, and they have a 300% increased risk of dying from heart disease than other segments of the general population. While these results are astonishing, they also provide vital information to… Continue
Added by Cindy Devone-Pacheco, FireRescue on March 31, 2009 at 6:06pm — 12 Comments
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