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Acknowledgments

We thank FDNY BHS and World Trade Center Health Programs clinicians for their dedication in providing care for affected FDNY firefighters and EMS workers. We also thank the FDNY data center team and other FDNY researchers for their contributions to data preparation and data analysis. This project was funded by contract # 200-2011-39378 and contract # 200-2011-39383 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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    Jennifer Yip, Rachel Zeig-Owens, Madeline Vossbrinck, Ankura Singh, Theresa Schwartz & David J. Prezant

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA

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Yip, J. et al. (2018). World Trade Center Related Health Among NYC Firefighters and EMS Workers. In: Szema, A. (eds) World Trade Center Pulmonary Diseases and Multi-Organ System Manifestations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59372-2_10

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