Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Dr Lan, Dr Christophi, Dr Christiani, Dr Sotos-Prieto, Dr Kales); Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan (Dr Lan), Department of Occupational Medicine, Clínica Universidad de Navarra (Dr Fernandez-Montero); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra (IdiSNA) (Dr Fernandez-Montero), Pamplona, Navarra; Program in Biomedical Sciences, Boston University School of Medicine (Ms Yiannakou), Boston; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (Mr Marinos-Iatrides); OEM Fundamentals Course, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center, Portsmouth, Virginia (Dr Ankeny); 78th Occupational Medicine Services at Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia (Dr Kiser); Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus (Dr Christophi); Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid (Dr Sotos-Prieto), Spain; Department of Occupational Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge (Dr Kales), Massachusetts.
Address correspondence to: Stefanos N. Kales, MD, MPH, Occupational Medicine, Cambridge Health Alliance, Macht Building 427, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139 ([email protected]).
F-Y.L. and A.F.M. have contributed equally to this manuscript.
Funding: Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, at Harvard University.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Clinical significance: A high adherence to a healthy Mediterranean lifestyle is associated with lower risk of prevalent hypertension and higher aerobic capacity among young firefighter recruits.
