Mortality among survivors of the Sept 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster: Results from the World Trade Center Health Registry cohort

The Lancet

Volumn 378, Issue 9794, 2011, Pages 879-887

  Jordan, Hannah T ^a   Brackbill, Robert M ^a   Cone, James E ^a   Debchoudhury, Indira ^a   Farfel, Mark R ^a   Greene, Carolyn M ^a   Hadler, James L ^a   Kennedy, Joseph ^a   Li, Jiehui ^a   Liff, Jonathan ^b   Stayner, Leslie ^c   Stellman, Steven D ^a,d  

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

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ASSAULT; BENIGN TUMOR; BLOOD DISEASE; BREAST CANCER; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; EXPOSURE; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INJURY; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; MASS DISASTER; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSIS; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERITONEUM CANCER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHARYNX CANCER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DISCOLORATION; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; STUDENT; SURVIVOR; TERRORISM; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VIOLENCE; WORKER;

EID: 80052510547     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(11)60966-5     Document Type: Article

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