Prehospital and disaster medicine
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Prehosp Disaster Med · Apr 2000
Self-reported cardiac risk factors in emergency department nurses and paramedics.
Our objective was to assess the prevalence of cardiac risk factors in a sample of urban paramedics and emergency department (ED) nurses. ⋯ Forty-eight percent of paramedics and 41% of ED nurses at this center are at high or very high risk for cardiovascular disease, by self-report. Efforts should be made to better educate and intervene in this population of health-care providers in order to reduce their cardiac risk.