WTC first responders have more health problems than general population
Study finds asthma, PTSD, depression common
In the first long-term study of the health impacts of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse on September 11, 2001, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found substantial and persistent mental and physical health problems among 9/11 first responders and recovery workers.
The data are published this week in a special 9/11 issue of the medical journal Lancet.