Case-control study of lung function in World Trade Center Health Registry area residents and workers

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 582-589

  Friedman, Stephen M ^a   Maslow, Carey B ^a   Reibman, Joan ^b   Pillai, Parul S ^a   Goldring, Roberta M ^b   Farfel, Mark R ^a   Stellman, Steven D ^a,c   Berger, Kenneth I ^b  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Distal airways; Oscillometry; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSCILLOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; DUST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSCILLOMETRY; REGISTRIES; RESCUE WORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESPIRATORY PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SPIROMETRY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052498982     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: 15354970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201011-1909OC     Document Type: Article

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