UA study focus on firefighter heart attacks

摘要

"Most firefighters who die of rnheart attacks have underlying heart disease, but in many cases the disease is not discovered early. Standard medical tests for firefighters do not detect early heart disease," say researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona (UA). Using a $1 million three-year Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters Grant for the research, the College will investigate whether medical treatment can control the progression of early atherosclerotic disease in firefighters.