Reuters (7/10, Carroll) reports that research published online July 10 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes suggests that “more than 16 years after cleanup was completed at the site of the September 11, 2001 attack on New York City’s World Trade Center complex, many who worked at the disaster site still struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and may also have an elevated risk of heart attack and stroke as a result.”
HealthDay (7/10, Gordon) reports that approximately “20 percent of men and 26 percent of women who responded when the twin towers were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 developed PTSD, which is at least twice the rate expected in the general population, the researchers said.” The investigators found that “those who developed” PTSD “faced more than double the risk of a heart attack and stroke compared to those who worked on New York City’s World Trade Center site but didn’t develop PTSD.”
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— “PTSD raises heart and stroke risk in World Trade Center cleanup crews,”Linda Carroll, Reuters, July 10, 2018.