Age as a bona fide occupational qualification for firefighting. A review on the importance of measuring aerobic power.

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  1992

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  Journal of Occupational Medicine

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  Medicine, Psychology

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  PMID 1552377
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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