Chemosensory Loss: Functional Consequences of the World Trade Center Disaster | Zendy

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Chemosensory Loss: Functional Consequences of the World Trade Center Disaster

Author(s) -

Pamela Dalton,

Richard E. Opiekun,

Michele Gould,

Ryan McDermott,

Tamika Wilson,

Christopher Mauté,

Mehmet Hakan Özdener,

Kai Zhao,

Edward A. Emmett,

Peter S. J. Lees,

Robin Herbert,

Jacqueline Moline

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1001924

Subject(s) - medicine , world trade center , cohort , irritation , trigeminal nerve , nose , mucous membrane of nose , odor , olfaction , physiology , audiology , surgery , pathology , psychology , immunology , biology , ecology , archaeology , neuroscience , terrorism , history

Individuals involved in rescue, recovery, demolition, and cleanup at the World Trade Center (WTC) site were exposed to a complex mixture of airborne smoke, dust, combustion gases, acid mists, and metal fumes. Such exposures have the potential to impair nasal chemosensory (olfactory and trigeminal) function.

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