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1. Persistence of multiple illnesses in World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: a cohort study.

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Wisnivesky, Juan P., Teitelbaum, Susan L., Todd, Andrew C., Boffetta, Paolo, Crane, Michael, Crowley, Laura, de la Hoz, Rafael E., Dellenbaugh, Cornelia, Harrison, Denise, Herbert, Robin, Hyun Kim, Yunho Jeon, Kaplan, Julia, Katz, Craig, Levin, Stephen, Luft, Ben, Markowitz, Steven, Moline, Jacqueline M., Ozbay, Fatih, and Pietrzak, Robert H.

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*DISEASE incidence, *COHORT analysis, *SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, *RESPIRATORY diseases, *MENTAL health
Abstract

The article presents a cohort study which examines the 9-year incidence and prevalence of physical and mental health disorders of the rescue and recovery workers in the September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City. The study explores the incidence rates of multiple health problems and their associations with occupational risk exposures. Findings show incidences of physical disorders such as asthma and sinusitis and mental disorders like depression.

Published
2011
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2. World Trade Center rescuers face lung distress.

Author

Ault, Alicia

Subjects
*AIR pollution, *RESPIRATORY diseases, *PUBLIC health research, *ENVIRONMENTAL quality, *SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, *ENVIRONMENTAL health, *POLLUTION, *HEALTH of fire fighters, *STRUCTURAL steel workers, *MESOTHELIOMA risk factors, *LUNG diseases, *CITIES & towns & the environment, *DISEASE risk factors
Abstract

Focuses on the study released by the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, which found respiratory difficulties plague rescuers and others who worked at the World Trade Center since September 11, 2001. Connections between pollutants and adverse health effects, according to Philip Landrigan, chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Distress caused by highly alkaline pulverized cement particles and microscopic glass shards; Symptoms of the firefighters and ironworkers who were evaluated; Impact of pollution on residents who lived within a ten-block radius of the site; The risk of asbestos-linked mesothelioma.

Published
2004
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