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    Coronary Heart Disease risk in volunteer firefighters in Victoria, Australia

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    Authors
    Wolkow, A.
    Netto, Kevin
    Langridge, P.
    Green, J.
    Nichols, D.
    Sergeant, M.
    Aisbett, B.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Wolkow, A. and Netto, K. and Langridge, P. and Green, J. and Nichols, D. and Sergeant, M. and Aisbett, B. 2014. Coronary Heart Disease risk in volunteer firefighters in Victoria, Australia. Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health. 69 (2): pp. 112-120.
    Source Title
    Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health
    DOI
    10.1080/19338244.2012.750588
    ISSN
    1933 8244
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15234
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    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 factor data were collected from 2,943 Australian volunteer firefighters and CHD risk was compared with reference “low-risk” and Australian population data. Predicted CHD risk for male and female firefighter was 19.2% and 5.1%, respectively. Female firefighters high blood pressure and fasting glucose was significantly lower than the general population, whereas all other risk factors was similar to the general population. Firefighters’ CHD risk was greater than other volunteer and paid emergency services, but the prevalence for most risk factors was similar to the general population. Therefore, Australian volunteer firefighters may not benefit from the HWE.

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