Most EMS Recruits are Overweight, Obese
Photo courtesy of ABC News.
More than 75 percent of candidates for fire and ambulance services in Massachusetts are either overweight or obese, a situation that has major consequences for public health and safety, researchers say.
A team from BUSM, Boston Medical Center, Harvard University and the Cambridge Health Alliance reviewed the pre-placement medical examinations of 370 firefighter and ambulance recruits assessed at two Massachusetts clinics between October 2004 and June 2007.
They found that 43.8 percent of the recruits were overweight, 33 percent were obese, and only 22 percent were normal weight.
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