Development and Implementation of a Comparison Occupational Cohort for the WTC GRC

Details

• Personal Author:
  Teitelbaum SL
• Description:
  World Trade Center (WTC) first responders have suffered numerous diseases and conditions as a result of their efforts on 9/11 and afterwards. Higher than expected rates of certain cancers have been reported, such as multiple myeloma, prostate, and thyroid. Also reported are relatively high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, and sleep apnea. Although the WTC General Responders Cohort (WTC-GRC) consists of occupational groups, the comparator groups for all of these reports were either national or local and were composed of members of the general population, not occupational groups. The purpose of this project is the development of a unique occupational cohort without WTC exposures to be used for valid estimates of the health of the first responders. The specific aims of the project include: 1) converting existing data into a usable database for comparative analyses of WTC-related health conditions; 2) building a new occupational cohort to serve as a comparison in the longitudinal assessment of health in the WTC-GRC; and 3) utilizing the newly created comparison cohort to determine if GERD incidence in the WTC-GRC differs from an unexposed worker population. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Cohort Studies
  • Database
  • Mental Health
  • Nervous System
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • September 11 Terrorist Attacks
• Keywords:
  • World Trade Center
  • WTC
  • Cohort studies
  • Longitudinal study
  • Databases
  • Gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • GERD
  • Mental health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069704
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, U01-OH-011487, 2023 Aug; :1-17
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan L. Teitelbaum, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave Levy Pl, New York, NY, 10029-6574
• Email:
  susan.teitelbaum@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• Performing Organization:
  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20180701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20210630
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219255/cdc_219255_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.20 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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