Eighteen years after 9/11, a medical study of nearly 10,000 city Firefighters has linked their exposure to World Trade Center dust with a significantly increased long-term risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Conducted by researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Health System and the Fire Department, it found that those who arrived earliest on the scene—when the air-borne dust was thickest—have a 44-percent increased risk of CVD compared to those who arrived later in the day. The study was published online in JAMA Open Network.
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