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Thursday, July 12, 2018 At 5:00 am / Sep.
Although nearly 17 years have passed since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, many people have taken part in this daunting task, still suffer from PTSD and may have a risk higher heart attack or stroke.
A research team found that among the more than 6,000 workers and workers involved in the removal of rubble, in the last months of 2001, having a heart attack or stroke nearly three times the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder.
In their study published in Circulation: Cardio Fiscular Quality and Utcams, researchers reported that exposure to dust at the site or depression did not explain the results.
Researcher Alfredo Morabia, of City University in New York and the Milman College of Public Health in Colombia, said that research results go beyond the status of workers at the World Trade Center site.
"The message to anyone suffering from PTSD, whether it is a man or a woman, is that he is at higher risk of having a heart attack or a heart attack. stroke, "he told Reuters Health.
The study analyzed 6,641 workers and volunteers, not firefighters, who participated in rescue operations, recovered victims and raised rubble after the building collapsed.
They joined a long-term health monitoring and treatment program in 2002.
The study looked at the health status of these workers and volunteers between 2012 and 2016.
During this period, about 20% of men and 26% of women had PTSD.
Overall, their heart attack rate increased by 2.22 times and 2.51 times that of those who did not.
He expressed the hope that these results will encourage health program officials, associated with workers at the site of the collapse of the World Trade Center, to include heart disease in the list of diseases covered by the program.
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