Mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters in Hamburg, Germany: a cohort study 1950 – 2000

Table 1 Published studies on mortality of fire fighters

Author	Year	City/Country	Size of Cohort	Period of recruitment	End of Observation	SMR	95% CI
Musk [30]	1978	Boston/USA	5655	1915–1975	7/1975	0.91	na
Eliopulos [31]	1984	Western Australian Fire Brigade	990	10/1939 – 12/1978	12/1978	0.80	0.67–0.96
Vena [32]	1987	Buffalo/USA	1867	1950 – 1979	1979	0.95	na
Heyer [33]	1990	Seattle/USA	2289	1/1945 – 12/1979	12/1983	0.76	0.69–0.85
Hansen [34]	1990	Denmark Census 1970	886	1970	1980	0.99	0.75–1.29
Beaumont [35]	1991	San Francisco/USA	3066	1940 – 1970	1982	0.90	0.85–0.95
Demers [9]	1992	Seattle. Tacomo. Portland/USA	4546	1944 – 1979	1989	0.81	0.77–0.86
Guidotti [11]	1993	Alberta/Canada	3328	1927 – 1987	1987	0.96	0.87–1.07
Aronson [36]	1994	Toronto/Canada	5995	1950 – 1989	1989	0.95	0.88–1.02
Tornling [37]	1994	Stockholm/Sweden	1116	1931 – 1983	1986	0.82	0.72–0.91
Deschamps [38]	1995	Paris/France	830	1973 – 1991	1991	0.52	0.35–0.75
Baris [39]	2001	Philadelphia/USA	7789	1925 – 1986		0.96
Present study	2001	Hamburg/Germany	4557	1.1.1950-30.6.2000	6/2000	0.78	0.74–0.83

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