Sentences with phrase «disease in firefighters»

«Standard assessments miss early signs of cardiovascular disease in firefighters.»

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The firefighters union also wants a series of ailments, including several types of cancer and heart disease, covered in the mayor's proposal.

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 attack being the number one cause of death.

Traditional first - line checks of such heart disease risk factors as cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking habits aren't nearly good enough to identify cardiovascular disease in otherwise healthy, young firefighters, according to results of a small Johns Hopkins study.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

And it's been previously shown that major changes in sleep patterns for shift workers (such as nurses and firefighters) can increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes.

Eat as much as you like as the body compensates for the amount of cholesterol consumed in food, and cholesterol does not cause heart disease anymore than firefighters cause fires, what causes heart disease is inflammation caused by Processed carbohydrates, processed oils and sugars in other words processed foods, they have now proved that the higher your cholesterol the longer you live and the more intelligent you are.