Health effects following exposure to dust from the World Trade Center disaster: An update.
Life Sci
; 289: 120147, 2022 Jan 15.
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ABSTRACT
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.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Ataques Terroristas de 11 de Setembro
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Material Particulado
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Pneumopatias
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Doenças do Sistema Nervoso
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Life Sci
Ano de publicação:
2022
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Article