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CHEST: Asthma More Common in 9/11 Responders (CME/CE)

                   
medpagetoday.com
04-Nov-2009
 
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Explain to interested patients that other studies have identified respiratory problems in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks, but none had compared the burden of asthma between responders and the general population. The... [read full story]                    

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Asthma in 9/11 responders is two times greater than general US population

 news-medical.net 05-Nov-2009
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World Trade Center Responders Plagued With Asthma; 9/11 Responders Twice As Likely To Have Asthma

 sciencedaily.com 03-Nov-2009
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Study: 9-11 rescue workers twice as likely to suffer from asthma

earthtimes.org
03-Nov-2009
 

Washington - Rescue workers exposed to dust and pollutants following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general US population, according to...

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