Physical Fitness and Cardiovascular Mortality in Firefighters

To study prospectively the interrelationships among physical fitness, activity, other measured risk factors, coronary heart disease (CHD) and all-cause mortality in a cohort of 3,403 firefighters.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Heart Diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases; Coronary Disease; Hypertension; Obesity

Detailed Description

BACKGROUND:

From 1971-1991 the Occupational Health Service of Los Angeles Country measured physical fitness and other CHD risk factors (including physical activity, anthropometric measures, blood pressure, smoking, family history of CHD, and levels of total cholesterol, uric acid, and glucose) in Los Angeles County firefighters at application and routine intervals (approximately every three years). The entire cohort of 3403 firefighters is now followed for mortality up to 1996.

DESIGN NARRATIVE:

The entire cohort of 3,403 firefighers is followed up to 1996 in this longitudinal study. The investigators are using a variety of tracing sources, including the National Death Index, and obtaining death certificates to determine date and cause of death. Cohort data will be analyzed to address the following aims: (1) To provide a longitudinal description of and determine the interrelationships among physical fitness, physical activity, and other measured risk factors; (2) to determine whether levels of physical fitness are related, independently of other known and measured risk factors, CHD and all-cause mortality; (3) To determine whether there is a gradient of decreasing CHD risk with increasing levels of physical fitness, or whether there appears to be some threshold of physical fitness, above which CHD risk stabilizes; (4) To determine whether the relationship between physical fitness and CHD and all-cause mortality varies by such cardiovascular risk factors as age, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, smoking, and obesity.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 3403

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: No older than 100 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

No eligibility criteria

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Southern California
• Collaborators: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
• Investigators: Wendy Mack, University of Southern California

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: July 1, 1999
• Study Completion: May 1, 2002

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: May 25, 2000
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 25, 2000
• First Posted (Estimate): May 26, 2000

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 31, 2017
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 29, 2017
• Last Verified: March 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Myocardial Ischemia; Vascular Diseases; Heart Diseases; Coronary Disease; Cardiovascular Diseases
• Other Study ID Numbers: 5080; R01HL058227 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No