Volunteer and Career French Firefighters With High Cardiovascular Risk: Epidemiology and Exercise Tests.

Objective: We aim to identify cardiovascular risk factors in firefighters of Loire (French district) with a high cardiovascular risk and report results of a screening program using exercise tests.

Methods: A retrospective descriptive study was performed in a cohort of 158 career and 400 volunteer firefighters with a high cardiovascular risk who had undergone an exercise test.

Results: Five hundred fifty-eight exercise tests and cardiovascular profiles were analyzed.