New Mount Sinai research finds 9/11 responders twice as likely to have asthma
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
First responders who were exposed to caustic dust and toxic pollutants following the 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) terrorist attacks suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general U.S. population, according to data presented today by Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers at CHEST 2009, the 75th annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), in San Diego.
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