Occupational lower airway disease in relation to World Trade Center inhalation exposure

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• Alternative Title:
  Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol
• Personal Author:
  de la Hoz, Rafael E.
• Description:
  Purpose of review
  
  To summarize the knowledge about the occupational lower airway diseases that seem related to exposures at the World Trade Center disaster site.
  
  Recent findings
  
  Those diseases have been characterized as irritant-induced asthma, chronic nonspecific bronchitis, chronic bronchiolitis/small airway disease, and aggravated preexistent chronic obstructive lung disease (most frequently chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but also asthma), with the expected overlapping features among them. One remarkable characteristic of the irritant-induced asthma observed among these workers was the slow onset of symptoms and long delay in clinical diagnoses.
  
  Summary
  
  Longitudinal studies suggest that both the incidence and the associated functional decline of these predominantly obstructive lung diseases stabilized several years ago, but longer follow-up is clearly necessary.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Animals Asthma Bronchitis, Chronic Humans Incidence Inhalation Exposure Lung Diseases Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Rescue Work September 11 Terrorist Attacks

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• Source:
  Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 11(2):97-102
• Pubmed ID:
  21325944
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC10034763
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  U10 OH008225/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:497ac644337542ad0b4edd03e64e95af08d46cbf28a646684b16446fe98a84c4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/126188/cdc_126188_DS1.pdf
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