Fitness

Fire fighters at high risk for heart attack

Published in Health and Medicine Week, October 20th, 2003

The recent observance of National Fire Prevention Week in the U.S. is prompting some health experts to underscore their belief that it's time fire fighters focused their lifesaving efforts on a critical group - other fire fighters.

A study by the Applied Exercise Science Laboratory at Texas A&M University shows fire fighters are often at high risk for heart attacks, primarily because they get little or no exercise while on duty.

The study's bottom line: fighting fires is difficult, courageous work, but all of those sedentary hours spent in the firehouse might be just as dangerous as a three-alarm blaze.

Wade Womack, a faculty...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2003-10-20)

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