ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2014
Estimating the time interval between exposure to the World Trade Center disaster and incident diagnoses of obstructive airway disease.
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- Mechanistic and Therapeutic Approaches to Occupational Exposure-Associated Allergic and Non-Allergic Asthmatic Disease.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2023Review
- Post-endotoxin exposure-induced lung inflammation and resolution consequences beneficially impacted by lung-delivered IL-10 therapy.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cancer risk among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A review.CA: a cancer journal for clinicians · 2022Review
- Temporal Aspects of the Association between Exposure to the World Trade Center Disaster and Risk of Cutaneous Melanoma.JID innovations : skin science from molecules to population health · 2022Article
- Impact of healthcare services on thyroid cancer incidence among World Trade Center-exposed rescue and recovery workers.American journal of industrial medicine · 2021Article
- Cancer survival among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A collaborative cohort study.American journal of industrial medicine · 2021Article
- Temporal association of prostate cancer incidence with World Trade Center rescue/recovery work.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2021Article
- The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Diagnoses of Obstructive Airway Disease, Chronic Rhinosinusitis, and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
- The effect of World Trade Center exposure on the latency of chronic rhinosinusitis diagnoses in New York City firefighters: 2001-2011.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2016Article
- Biomarkers of World Trade Center Particulate Matter Exposure: Physiology of Distal Airway and Blood Biomarkers that Predict FEV₁ Decline.Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine · 2015Review
- The Duration of an Exposure Response Gradient between Incident Obstructive Airways Disease and Work at the World Trade Center Site: 2001-2011.PLoS currents · 2015Article
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Abstract
Respiratory disorders are associated with occupational and environmental exposures. The latency period between exposure and disease onset remains uncertain. The World Trade Center (WTC) disaster presents a unique opportunity to describe the latency period for obstructive airway disease (OAD) diagnoses. This prospective cohort study of New York City firefighters compared the timing and incidence of physician-diagnosed OAD relative to WTC exposure. Exposure was categorized by WTC arrival time as high (on the morning of September 11, 2001), moderate (after noon on September 11, 2001, or on September 12, 2001), or low (during September 13-24, 2001). We modeled relative rates and 95% confidence intervals of OAD incidence by exposure over the first 5 years after September 11, 2001, estimating the times of change in the relative rate with change point models. We observed a change point at 15 months after September 11, 2001. Before 15 months, the relative rate for the high- versus low-exposure group was 3.96 (95% confidence interval: 2.51, 6.26) and thereafter, it was 1.76 (95% confidence interval: 1.26, 2.46). Incident OAD was associated with WTC exposure for at least 5 years after September 11, 2001. There were higher rates of new-onset OAD among the high-exposure group during the first 15 months and, to a lesser extent, throughout follow-up. This difference in relative rate by exposure occurred despite full and free access to health care for all WTC-exposed firefighters, demonstrating the persistence of WTC-associated OAD risk.
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