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Profiles of US Law Enforcement Officers’ Diagnosed Health Conditions
- Source :
- Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 63:422-431
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE To assess comorbidity across five common health conditions. METHODS Surveys were collected from a probability-based sample of US law enforcement officers, and latent class models estimated for hypertension (HTN), high blood cholesterol (LDL), diabetes (DM), a gastrointestinal disorder (GI), and sleep apnea (SA). RESULTS The majority of officers (69.4%) were classified in a Healthy profile. One in four officers (23.7%) were classified in a LDL-HTN-DM profile. About 7% of officers were classified in a GI-SA-HTN profile. Age, sex, body mass index (BMI), exercise, and working a rotating shift assignment distinguished class membership. CONCLUSION Most officers reported good health. Law enforcement administrative or clinical assessments using readily accessible measures might be informative in identifying risk categories of need for more targeted prevention and treatment support.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Law enforcement
Sleep apnea
Sample (statistics)
medicine.disease
030210 environmental & occupational health
Comorbidity
Police
03 medical and health sciences
Law Enforcement
0302 clinical medicine
Gastrointestinal disorder
Surveys and Questionnaires
Family medicine
medicine
Blood cholesterol
Humans
business
Body mass index
Probability
A rotating shift
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15365948 and 10762752
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a1878182fc6e82804ee77bb48d47b75d