Characteristics of a residential and working community with diverse exposure to World Trade Center dust, gas, and fumes

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 534-541

  Reibman, Joan ^a,c   Liu, Mengling ^a   Cheng, Qinyi ^a   Liautaud, Sybille ^b   Rogers, Linda ^a   Lau, Stephanie ^a   Berger, Kenneth I ^a   Goldring, Roberta M ^a   Marmor, Michael ^a   Fernandez Beros, Maria Elena ^a   Tonorezos, Emily S ^a   Caplan Shaw, Caralee E ^a   Gonzalez, Jaime ^a   Filner, Joshua ^a   Walter, Dawn ^a   Kyng, Kymara ^a   Rom, William N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; DISASTER; DUST; EVALUATION; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUME; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SPIROMETRY; SUBURBAN AREA; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; WORLD TRADE CENTER;

EID: 68049092030     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3181a0365b     Document Type: Article

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