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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2008;300(7):779.

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The continuing effects of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are providing researchers new insights into the course of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The latest discovery comes from investigators associated with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, who found that Manhattan residents living near the World Trade Center towers are vulnerable to PTSD years after the buildings collapsed. Their findings were released on June 13 (DiGrande L et al. J Trauma Stress. 2008;21[3]:264-273).

In a survey of 11 037 residents living south of Canal Street in the lower part of Manhattan at the time of the attacks, the researchers found that even 2 or 3 years after the event, the prevalence of probable PTSD was 12.6%—about 3 or 4 times the rate seen in the general population.

A significant percentage of persons who lived or worked in proximity to the September 11, 2001, . . . [Full Text of this Article]