American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on August 10, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162(6):511-512; doi:10.1093/aje/kwi235
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Lin et al. Respond to "Assessment of Respiratory Symptoms after September 11"
1 Center for Environmental Health, New York State Department of Health, Troy, NY
2 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, Renssalaer, NY
Received for publication May 16, 2005. Accepted for publication June 1, 2005.
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We appreciate the observations made by Drs. Vlahov and Galea in their invited commentary (1
) on our paper (2
). Given that the World Trade Center (WTC) disaster was an unprecedented event, this was not a traditional epidemiologic study but rather a community health investigation designed to respond to the public's concerns, as well as the first step in examining the potential health effects on local