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March 18, 2022

FSRI Study: Healthy Female, Male FFs have similar Blood Clotting Potential

COLUMBIA, Md. — A peer-reviewed journal article led by a member of the UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute’s advisory board that compares blood clotting potential among female and male firefighters was published Tuesday.

The purpose of the study “was to determine the effects of multiple bouts of firefighting on hemostatic responses (specifically, key changes in firefighters’ blood that are important in the process of blood clot formation), and this secondary analysis allowed the team to compare those responses in male and female firefighters,” an FSRI news release stated.

The study showed that after firefighting activities, healthy male and female firefighters had similar physical responses, and the women did not have a greater procoagulatory shift. Read More…

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