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9/11 FDNY Rescue Workers Show Lasting Lung Damage

Seven-Year Follow-up Shows Persistent Lung Function Decline with no Meaningful Recovery Apr 8, 2010 -- A study of nearly 13,000 rescue workers from the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) shows that the significant proportion who suffered acute lung damage after exposure to World Trade Center (WTC) dust have not recovered normal lung function in the years since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This seven-year study, with almost 62,000 individual measurements, is the largest longitudinal study ever reported of occupational influences on lung function. It is the only group of WTC workers for which pre-9/11 lung function measurements were available. The study, led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of 🟩Facebook账号 | 贝宁(非洲) 真人号 | 2008-2023年 | 好友随机 | 微软邮箱 | 无2FA and Montefiore Medical Center, in collaboration with FDNY, appears in the April 8, 2010 print edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. Read full article...