Early Elevation of Serum MMP-3 and MMP-12 Predicts Protection from World Trade Center-Lung Injury in New York City Firefighters: A Nested Case-Control Study

• Sophia Kwon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Kwon, Michael D. Weiden

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Michael D. Weiden ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sophia Kwon, Michael D. Weiden

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York University, School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, Tuxedo Park, New York, United States of America, Bureau of Health Services and Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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• Ghislaine C. Echevarria,

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, División de Anestesiología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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• Ashley L. Comfort,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Bushra Naveed,

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• David J. Prezant,

  Affiliations Bureau of Health Services and Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America, Pulmonary Medicine Division, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America,

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• William N. Rom,

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York University, School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, Tuxedo Park, New York, United States of America

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• Anna Nolan

  * E-mail: anna.nolan@med.nyu.edu

  Affiliations Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep, New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, New York University, School of Medicine, Department of Environmental Medicine, Tuxedo Park, New York, United States of America, Bureau of Health Services and Office of Medical Affairs, Fire Department of New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America

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