Researchers at Johns Hopkins suggest that using traditional first-line checks of such heart disease risk factors as cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking habits may miss early signs of cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy, young firefighters. Previous studies have found that cardiovascular disease accounts for 45 percent of deaths of on-duty firefighters nationwide, in contrast to 15 percent of deaths among those with conventional occupations, with heart ...
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