Nearly 1,000 from that group have qualified for "permanent respiratory disability" because of asthma or chronic bronchitis.
In addition to the 363 firefighters and rescue workers with respiratory disability, 213 others were on leave with emotional stress resulting from their work at the site and from their grief over the deaths of so many friends and co-workers.
As many as 500 New York City firefighters may have to retire early as a result of "respiratory disability," chronic breathing problems caused by their exposure to dense clouds of dust, smoke and fumes at the World Trade Center, health officials said yesterday.
The decline was often accompanied by symptoms like coughing, wheezing or a sore throat, and nearly 1,000 workers had more serious diagnoses, like asthma or chronic bronchitis, which qualified for "permanent respiratory disability," said the study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
In addition, in patients with severe chronic respiratory disability, as indicated by previous home respiratory support, long-term mortality was extremely high.
J.D. missed school because of a chronic respiratory disability.
Pulmonary contusion is associated with complications including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome, and it can cause long-term respiratory disability.
In subjects with COPD, exposure to VDGF appears to promote transient or even permanent work loss due to respiratory disability.
The long-term sequelae of anthrax illness include depression, anxiety and long-term cardiac and respiratory disability [ 12].
In a community based cohort study using structured telephone interviews of 234 COPD patients, 25% reported respiratory disability at work and 16% reported both VDGF exposures and respiratory-related work disability [ 6].
