ReviewLung2021
Twenty-Year Reflection on the Impact of World Trade Center Exposure on Pulmonary Outcomes in Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) Rescue and Recovery Workers.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dust exposure and lung function among firefighters involved in rescue and relief operations after the Great East Japan Earthquake.Journal of occupational health · 2026Article
- Association of COVID-19 Severity with Comorbidities: Results from the World Trade Center Health Registry.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Design of a randomized tobacco cessation trial among FDNY World Trade Center responders in a lung cancer screening program.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Article
- World Trade Center (WTC) Exposures and Cardiometabolic Risk Among WTC Health Program General Responders.American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Exposure to the World Trade Center Disaster, Health, and Health-Related Quality of Life Nearly 20 Years After 9/11.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
- Disparities in Utilization of the World Trade Center Health Program Among World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers and Volunteers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Association between World Trade Center disaster exposures and body mass index in community members enrolled at World Trade Center Environmental Health Center.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2025Article
- The World Trade Center exposome and health effects in 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional association between posttraumatic stress and cognition is moderated by pulmonary functioning in world trade center responders.American journal of industrial medicine · 2024Article
- The Long-Term Physical-Psychiatric Comorbidities Related to Childhood Exposure to 9/11 Trauma.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- The World Trade Center Exposome and Health Effects in 9/11 Rescue and Recovery Workers.Research square · 2023Article
- A 15-year follow-up study of mortality in a pooled cohort of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Mutagenicity of the organic fraction of World Trade Center dust.Environmental and molecular mutagenesis · 2023Article
- Molecular Clustering Analysis of Blood Biomarkers in World Trade Center Exposed Community Members with Persistent Lower Respiratory Symptoms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- LUNG Year in Review: 2021.Lung · 2022Article
- The Role of Personality in the Mental and Physical Health of World Trade Center Responders: Self- versus Informant-Reports.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2022Article
- Plasma amyloid beta 40/42, phosphorylated tau 181, and neurofilament light are associated with cognitive impairment and neuropathological changes among World Trade Center responders: A prospective cohort study of exposures and cognitive aging at midlife.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Article
- Amphibole asbestos as an environmental trigger for systemic autoimmune diseases.Autoimmunity reviewsReview
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Abstract
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (9/11), many rescue/recovery workers developed respiratory symptoms and pulmonary diseases due to their extensive World Trade Center (WTC) dust cloud exposure. Nearly all Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) workers were present within 48 h of 9/11 and for the next several months. Since the FDNY had a well-established occupational health service for its firefighters and Emergency Medical Services workers prior to 9/11, the FDNY was able to immediately start a rigorous monitoring and treatment program for its WTC-exposed workers. As a result, respiratory symptoms and diseases were identified soon after 9/11. This focused review summarizes the WTC-related respiratory diseases that developed in the FDNY cohort after 9/11, including WTC cough syndrome, obstructive airways disease, accelerated lung function decline, airway hyperreactivity, sarcoidosis, and obstructive sleep apnea. Additionally, an extensive array of biomarkers has been identified as associated with WTC-related respiratory disease. Future research efforts will not only focus on further phenotyping/treating WTC-related respiratory disease but also on additional diseases associated with WTC exposure, especially those that take decades to develop, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and interstitial lung disease.
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