Novel approach to studying effects of inhalational exposure on lung function in civilians exposed to the World Trade Center disaster.

ABSTRACT: It is increasingly important to study the impact of environmental inhalation exposures on human health in natural or man-made disasters in civilian populations. The members of the World Trade Center Environmental Health Center (WTC EHC; WTC Survivors) had complex exposures to environmental disaster from the destruction of WTC towers and can serve to reveal the effects of WTC exposure on the entire spectrum of lung functions. We aimed to investigate the associations between complex WTC exposures and measures of spirometry and oscillometry in WTC Survivors and included 3605 patients enrolled between Oct 1, 2009 and Mar 31, 2018. We performed latent class analysis and identified five latent exposure groups. We applied linear and quantile regressions to estimate the exposure effects on the mea

SUBMITTER: Wang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9958097 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature