ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2016
Mortality among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers, 2002-2011.
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- Exposure-Informed Care Following Toxic Environmental Exposures: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Review
- All-cause and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of WTC-exposed and non-WTC-exposed firefighters.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2023Article
- A 15-year follow-up study of mortality in a pooled cohort of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Health effects following exposure to dust from the World Trade Center disaster: An update.Life sciences · 2022Review
- Cancer survival among World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers: A collaborative cohort study.American journal of industrial medicine · 2021Article
- World Trade Center Health Program: First Decade of Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Review
- Mortality among Fire Department of the City of New York Rescue and Recovery Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster, 2001-2017.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Aircraft-Assisted Pilot Suicides in the General Aviation Increased for One-Year Period after 11 September 2001 Attack in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Prostate cancer characteristics in the World Trade Center cohort, 2002-2013.European journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention Organisation (ECP) · 2018Article
- Risk Factors for Depression Among Civilians After the 9/11 World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.PLoS currents · 2018Article
- Development of a Physiological Frailty Index for the World Trade Center General Responder Cohort.Current gerontology and geriatrics research · 2018Article
- Assessment of cumulative health risk in the World Trade Center general responder cohort.American journal of industrial medicine · 2018Article
- Development and Validation of a Clinical Frailty Index for the World Trade Center General Responder Cohort.Journal of aging and healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundRescue and recovery workers responding to the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) sustained exposures to toxic chemicals and have elevated rates of multiple morbidities.
methodsUsing data from the World Trade Center Health Program and the National Death Index for 2002-2011, we examined standardized mortality ratios (SMR) and proportional cancer mortality ratios (PCMR) with indirect standardization for age, sex, race, and calendar year to the U.S. general population, as well as associations between WTC-related environmental exposures and all-cause mortality.
resultsWe identified 330 deaths among 28,918 responders (SMR 0.43, 95%CI 0.39-0.48). No cause-specific SMRs were meaningfully elevated. PCMRs were elevated for neoplasms of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue (PCMR 1.76, 95%CI 1.06-2.75). Mortality hazard ratios showed no linear trend with exposure.
conclusionsConsistent with a healthy worker effect, all-cause mortality among responders was not elevated. There was no clear association between intensity and duration of exposure and mortality. Surveillance is needed to monitor the proportionally higher cancer mortality attributed to lymphatic/hematopoietic neoplasms.
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