Coronary Heart Disease risk in volunteer firefighters in Victoria, Australia

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Coronary Heart Disease risk in volunteer firefighters in Victoria, Australia

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a major problem for firefighters, even when considering the healthy worker effect (HWE). Although volunteer firefighters outnumber paid personnel, previous research has focused on paid US firefighters. By contrast, no CHD data for Australian firefighters exist. Risk f...

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Main Authors:	Wolkow, A., Netto, Kevin, Langridge, P., Green, J., Nichols, D., Sergeant, M., Aisbett, B.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Inc 2014
Subjects:	coronary heart disease workplace occupational health
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15234

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