Leading endorphin researchers not associated with the study said they accepted its findings.
Dr. Murad Alam, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, who also was not associated with the study, was impressed, too, but he cautioned that it was still early.
In e-mail exchanges, several climate experts not associated with the study expressed a variety of views on the new cooling forecast.
A doctor not associated with the study, William A. Baumgartner, chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said researchers at his hospital were also studying the problem but had found far fewer patients with significant long-term problems, perhaps 8percentto10percentcent.
Researchers not associated with the study, published online Wednesday in The Lancet, found the results compelling and disturbing.
Dr. Michael A. Matthay, who is not associated with the study, called it a landmark and said that so many other efforts to find a remedy for sepsis had failed that some researchers were ready to give up.
But generally, according to the researchers and some pollution experts not associated with the study, the findings should provide at least a bit of relief to residents of the area, many of whom have remained worried about the effects that pollution from the disaster could have on their health.
Dr. Dennis Murphy, a psychiatrist who was not associated with the study, said the results had the potential to advance understanding of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An expert on hospital safety who was not associated with the study said the findings were a warning for the patient-safety movement.
Medical experts not associated with the study said that the findings should change the course of research worldwide for a deadly and frustrating condition.
