Clinical trial NCT00404898: NYU/Bellevue WTC Health Impacts Research Registry
Official title: NYU/Bellevue Red Cross WTC Health Impacts Research Registry
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Conditions: Exposure to World Trade Center Dust
Keywords: World Trade Center dust
Lead sponsor: NYU Langone Health
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH/CDC)
First posted: 2006-11-29
Enrollment: 16000
Sex: ALL
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The populations to be served will consist predominantly of a) local residents who were impacted by the dispersion of the WTC dusts and fumes, b) individuals involved in cleaning and debris removal of local commercial spaces, and c) responders to the WTC collapse. These populations will be recruited from past and ongoing programs that we have developed as well as from ongoing collaborations with community organizations that include: the Beyond Ground Zero Network, 9/11 Environmental Action committee, and the WTC Residents Coalition.

Brief summary: The American Red Cross has funded a multidisciplinary, comprehensive evaluation and treatment program for target individuals with suspected World Trade Center (WTC)-related health problems. The populations served consist predominantly of a) local residents who were impacted by the disperion of the WTC dusts and fumes, b) individuals involved in cleaning and debris removal of local commercial spaces, and c) responders to the WTC collapse. These populations are recruited from past and ongoing programs that we have developed as well as from ongoing collaborations with community organizations that include: the Beyond Ground Zero Network, 9/11 Environmental Action committee, and the WTC Residents Coalition. In addition, there is collaboration with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and the centers involved in the ongoing WTC Workers and Volunteer Medical Screening and Monitoring Program. We would now like to access the data from this treatment program to create a NYU/Bellevue WTC Health Impacts Research Registry to increase knowledge about the health effects of exposure to World Trade Center dust.


Eligibility criteria: Target populations who will participate in the Bellevue Hospital Red Cross WTC Health Impacts Program will include:

* residents (children and adults) of Lower Manhattan communities at the time of the attacks, who remained or returned to their homes soon after the attacks
* individuals involved in debris removal in surrounding commercial and residential buildings,
* individuals involved in rescue, recovery and debris removal who have been previously screened through the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program and are in need of continued treatment.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Respiratory Status
timeFrame: June 2020
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mental Health Status
timeFrame: June 2020
measure: General Health Status
timeFrame: June 2020
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: New York
country: United States
facility: NYU School of Medicine/Bellevue Hospital
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: NYU Langone Health
name: Joan Reibman, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Caplan-Shaw C, Kazeros A, Pradhan D, Berger K, Goldring R, Zhao S, Liu M, Shao Y, Fernandez-Beros ME, Marmor M, Levy-Carrick N, Rosen R, Ferri L, Reibman J. Improvement in severe lower respiratory symptoms and small airway function in World Trade Center dust exposed community members. Am J Ind Med. 2016 Sep;59(9):777-87. doi: 10.1002/ajim.22642.