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Posted on 09/05/2006 10:39:18 PM PDT by neverdem
The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.
The study, released yesterday by doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center, is expected to erase any lingering doubts about the connection between dust from the trade center and numerous diseases that the workers have reported suffering. It is also expected to increase pressure on the federal government to provide health care for sick workers who do not have health insurance.
Roughly 70 percent of nearly 10,000 workers tested at Mount Sinai from 2002 to 2004 reported that they had new or substantially worsened respiratory problems while or after working at ground zero.
The rate is similar to that found among a smaller sample of 1,100 such workers released by Mount Sinai in 2004, but the scale of the current study gives it far more weight; it also indicates significant problems that were not reflected in the original study.
For example, one-third of the patients in the new study showed diminished lung capacity in tests designed to measure the amount of air a person can exhale. Among nonsmokers, 28 percent were found to have some breathing impairment, more than double the rate for nonsmokers in the general population.
The study is among the first to show that many of the respiratory ailments — like sinusitis and asthma, and gastrointestinal problems related to them — initially reported by ground zero workers persisted or grew worse in the years after 9/11.
Most of the ground zero workers in the study who reported trouble breathing while working there were still having those problems up to two and a...
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Sept. 11 Navigator Health Resources and Documents
Video: Toxic Legacy at Ground Zero (Beware NYT source)
And the libs were be angry at the government for not doing enough for the workers. They won't be angry one bit at the Islamic terrorists that caused the misery in the first place.
Everyone who helped clean up the pile who needs medical help should get it via worker's compensation benefits. If they don't, then they should get an attorney. The 1%-3% who try to scam the system should go to jail + pay fines.
As my wife said, are these people in line after the atomic vets and workers, and the Gulf War syndrome people.
They should be stripped of their citizenship, and shipped to Iran!
Just how many folks would NOT have gone to help, had they given ten seconds thought as to what was in that dust? I'd venture to guess that maybe one in a hundred might have had second thoughts, but most just wanted to get there to help in any way they could.
Anyway, what did they expect that dust to contain, baby powder? For heaven's sake, everyone knew that the dust was what was left over from EVERYTHING that was in those buildings including computers, papers, file cabinets, walls, floors, and people.
That's it? ..You are being kind.
Baby powder (talcum powder) used to contain the element: talc. Not good for the lungs.
"Baby powder (talcum powder) used to contain the element: talc. Not good for the lungs."
On a side note, note really good for your ovaries either.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_Talc_Use_Linked_to_One_Type_of_Ovarian_Cancer.asp
"On a side note, note really good for your ovaries either."
This should read, NOT really good for your ovaries either.
I am surprised at how many women do not know that.
Didn't they wear dust masks?
would clog up pretty quick
In photographs, I saw many dust masks hanging off one ear.
"I am surprised at how many women do not know that."
Me too. There are so many issues in the field of women's health that could be addressed in the media but, for some reason, are not. We hear a lot about breast cancer, perhaps because of it's prevalence but, when it comes to the risk factors etc. of ovarian cancer which is far more deadly, we do not. Even if there is a small risk, I think we should know about it. You have to do some real digging on the internet to come up with some factual information.
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