Health effects following exposure to dust from the World Trade Center disaster: An update☆

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• Alternative Title:
  Life Sci
• Personal Author:
  Mears, Matthew J. ; Aslaner, David M. ; Barson, Chad T. ; Cohen, Mitchell D. ; Gorr, Matthew W. ; Wold, Loren E.
• Description:
  Exposure to dust, smoke, and fumes containing volatile chemicals and particulate matter (PM) from the World Trade Center (WTC) towers' collapse impacted thousands of citizens and first responders (FR; firefighters, medicals staff, police officers) of New York City. Surviving FR and recovery workers are increasingly prone to age-related diseases that their prior WTC dust exposures might expedite or make worse. This review provides an overview of published WTC studies concerning FR/recovery workers' exposure and causal mechanisms of age-related disease susceptibility, specifically those involving the cardiopulmonary and neurological systems. This review also highlights the recent findings of the major health effects of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neurological health sequelae from WTC dust exposure. To better treat those that risked their lives during and after the disaster of September 11, 2001, the deleterious mechanisms that WTC dust exposure exerted and continue to exert on the heart, lungs, and brain of FR must be better understood.
• Subjects:
  Cardiovascular Diseases Humans Lung Diseases Nervous System Diseases New York City Particulate Matter September 11 Terrorist Attacks
• Keywords:
  Cardiac Particulate Matter PTSD Pulmonary World Trade Center Dust
• Source:
  Life Sci. 289:120147
• Pubmed ID:
  34785191
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8791014
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 AG057046/AG/NIA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 OH012056/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; P30 ES000260/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 HL139348/HL/NHLBI NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 OH008280/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  289
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e4605a43a7293bfead34816e567582fe193f8738de9baa60d572120420b56b12bc687ae9527d2ba98c390a6c75d62b3f7d216927568544f598f2fdc926d5da36
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113869/cdc_113869_DS1.pdf
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