Table 3.

Analyses of risk of sudden cardiac death among law enforcement officers engaged in emergency and strenuous duties compared with officers engaged in routine/non-emergency duties, using combined data from National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Officer Down Memorial Page (1984-2010). Sensitivity analyses restricted to survey responses from law enforcement officers with similar age distribution (individual matching based on 5 year age classes) as cases of sudden cardiac death

Duty	Relative risk (95% CI)
Routine/non-emergency	1.00 (reference)
Disturbance	1.64 (1.00 to 2.68)
Testifying in court	1.63 (0.52 to 5.13)
Serving a warrant	2.17 (0.95 to 4.94)
Transporting and supervising prisoners	3.79 (2.27 to 6.35)
Medical and rescue operations	7.36 (4.97 to 10.9)
Physical training	27.8 (20.9 to 37.1)
Pursuit	25.8 (18.4 to 36.2)
Restraint, physical altercation	40.6 (30.9 to 53.3)