by erosoplier » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:03 am
<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Even so, clinical evidence of a serious health problem surfaced not long after the attack. Initial studies of firefighters found that many had developed “trade center cough,” a stubborn hacking that caused them to cough up soot and dust particles. <br><br>A large-scale medical study came out in 2004, when the Mount Sinai Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine reported that more than half of the first 1,138 workers it had examined had serious respiratory problems. <br><br>Workers also suffered gastrointestinal problems, acid reflux, asthma and mental stress. (Mount Sinai is scheduled to release a far larger study today, and it is expected to show serious ailments among many more workers.) <br><br>Successive studies through the years have found that the health hazards were more persistent than first thought. <br><br>A Fire Department study released this year showed that firefighters had suffered a loss in lung capacity in the first year after the attack equal to what they might have lost over 12 years of normal duty. The department has also found that the incidence of sarcoidosis, a serious lung scarring disease, rose to five times the expected rate in the first two years after 9/11. <br><br> <hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/nyregion/05health.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5094&en=329f137739f9f06f&hp&ex=1157515200&partner=homepage">www.nytimes.com/2006/09/0...r=homepage</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=erosoplier>erosoplier</A> at: 9/6/06 8:08 am<br></i>
