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Denise L Smith1, Gavin P Horn, Steven J Petruzzello

  • 11Illinois Fire Service Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; 2Department of Health and Exercise Sciences, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; 3Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; 4Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and 5Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
|August 9, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Strenuous firefighting increases blood clotting and fibrinolysis. Two hours post-firefighting, clotting remains elevated, potentially linking firefighting to sudden cardiac events in firefighters.

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