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

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• Personal Author:
  de la Hoz RE
• 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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  • Emergency Responders
  • Epidemiology
  • Lung
  • Lung Diseases
  • Occupational Health
  • Respiratory System
  • Respiratory Tract Diseases
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Rescue workers
  • Emergency responders
  • Respiratory system disorders
  • Pulmonary system disorders
  • Lung disorders
  • Lung function
  • Airway obstruction
  • Chronic inflammation
  • Disease incidence
  • Epidemiology
  More +
• ISSN:
  1528-4050
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  97-102
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039116
• Citation:
  Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 2011 Apr; 11(2):97-102
• Contact Point Address:
  Rafael E. de la Hoz, MD, MPH, WTC Monitoring and Treatment Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1059, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
• Email:
  Rafael.delaHoz@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040715
• Source Full Name:
  Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• End Date:
  20090714
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192590/cdc_192590_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.14 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:52d9d0404bd5cffb422d9f59684536837738da15c7961e7df5778093f1f93eafa5108555dc0fc8cbf36a88f534f1cc2f95c8fbe05b33ecf927aea2638b2ed845