WTC Chest CT Imaging Archive

NCT03295279 | Enrolling By Invitation

• 6 other identifiers: GCO 12-0751U01OH010401U01OH011697GCO 17-2598U01OH012782GCO 23-2259
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 2,122
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Dr. Rafael E de la Hoz and colleagues have performed standardized and computer-assisted readings of all chest CT scans received by WTC workers and volunteers at the Mount Sinai Medical Center between 2003 and 2016. The clinical team sought to assess all findings suggestive of airway, interstitial, and neoplastic disease in a systematic way, and correlate those findings with clinical, functional, and exposure indicators. The study team's research will also involve analyses of longitudinal imaging and functional trends, and characterization of the WTC related lower airway diseases and their risk factors, with a focus on obesity-related imaging markers. The study team also plans to characterize the transitions into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among these workers. The researchers also propose to test the use of added respiratory surveillance tools and explore functional markers of disease progression, explore alternate methods to investigate longitudinal functional trajectories, and novel spirometry calibration methods that might facilitate the implementation of spirometry in nonspecialized settings.

Conditions

Chronic Airway Disease; Interstitial Lung Disease; Lung Cancer

Keywords

World Trade Center; Quantitative computerized tomography; Qualitative computerized tomography of the chest; Chronic airway disease; Interstitial lung disease; Occupational pulmonology; Spirometry; Forced Oscillometry

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Accelerated longitudinal FEV1 decline

  The clinical team selects spirometries of acceptable quality, and subjects with at least 3 spirometries spanning at least 5 years, to calculate FEV1 slope, which can then be modeled quantitatively. For categorical analyses, the clinical team defines rapid FEV1 decliners and contrast them to normal-and-stable FEV1 subjects, defined as those having an FEV1 above the lower limit of normal at baseline, no bronchodilator response, and FEV1 not changing by more than 25 ml/year on average in either direction.

  5 years

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Number of physician diagnosis of incident asthma

  5 years

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All subjects will be participants in the screening/monitoring (SMP) and treatment program (TP) sides of the WTC Health Plan Clinical Center Excellence at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the major site, by far of the NY/NJ consortium of this program.

You may qualify if:

• All subjects will be participants in the screening/monitoring (SMP) and treatment program (TP) sides of the WTC Health Plan Clinical Center Excellence at Mount Sinai Medical Center, the major site, by far of the NY/NJ consortium of this program.

You may not qualify if:

• Special vulnerable populations, such as fetuses, neonates, pregnant women, children, prisoners, institutionalized individuals, will not be involved in this research study.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: lead
• University of Pittsburgh: collaborator
• National Jewish Health: collaborator
• Brigham and Women's Hospital: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

New York, New York, 10029, United States

Location

Related Publications (18)

• de la Hoz RE, Shohet MR, Chasan R, Bienenfeld LA, Afilaka AA, Levin SM, Herbert R. Occupational toxicant inhalation injury: the World Trade Center (WTC) experience. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2008 Feb;81(4):479-85. doi: 10.1007/s00420-007-0240-x. Epub 2007 Sep 5.

  PMID: 17786467 BACKGROUND

• Mendelson DS, Roggeveen M, Levin SM, Herbert R, de la Hoz RE. Air trapping detected on end-expiratory high-resolution computed tomography in symptomatic World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers. J Occup Environ Med. 2007 Aug;49(8):840-5. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3180d09e87.

  PMID: 17693781 BACKGROUND

• de la Hoz RE, Liu X, Doucette JT, Reeves AP, Bienenfeld LA, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC, Lynch DA, San Jose Estepar R. Increased Airway Wall Thickness is Associated with Adverse Longitudinal First-Second Forced Expiratory Volume Trajectories of Former World Trade Center workers. Lung. 2018 Aug;196(4):481-489. doi: 10.1007/s00408-018-0125-7. Epub 2018 May 24.

  PMID: 29797069 RESULT

• Weber J, Reeves AP, Doucette JT, Jeon Y, Sood A, San Jose Estepar R, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Quantitative CT Evidence of Airway Inflammation in WTC Workers and Volunteers with Low FVC Spirometric Pattern. Lung. 2020 Jun;198(3):555-563. doi: 10.1007/s00408-020-00350-5. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

  PMID: 32239319 RESULT

• Liu X, Reeves AP, Antoniak K, San Jose Estepar R, Doucette JT, Jeon Y, Weber J, Xu D, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Association of quantitative CT lung density measurements and lung function decline in World Trade Center workers. Clin Respir J. 2021 Jun;15(6):613-621. doi: 10.1111/crj.13313. Epub 2020 Dec 29.

  PMID: 33244876 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Shapiro M, Nolan A, Sood A, Lucchini RG, Cone JE, Celedon JC. Association of World Trade Center (WTC) Occupational Exposure Intensity with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Asthma COPD Overlap (ACO). Lung. 2023 Aug;201(4):325-334. doi: 10.1007/s00408-023-00636-4. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

  PMID: 37468611 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Doucette JT, Reeves AP, San Jose Estepar R, Celedon JC. Cluster Analysis of World Trade Center Related Lower Airway Diseases. J Occup Environ Med. 2024 Feb 1;66(2):179-184. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000003023. Epub 2023 Nov 29.

  PMID: 38305727 RESULT

• Weber J, Zhang Z, Doucette JT, Sood A, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Spirometric pattern transitions in a World Trade Center occupational cohort on longitudinal surveillance. Respir Med. 2025 Aug;244:108170. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2025.108170. Epub 2025 May 21.

  PMID: 40409739 RESULT

• Zhang Z, San Jose Estepar R, Doucette JT, Weber J, Ross JC, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Quantitative CT metrics of injury patterns among WTC workers on different longitudinal FEV1 trajectory groups. Respir Med. 2026 May;256:108810. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2026.108810. Epub 2026 Apr 7.

  PMID: 41956171 RESULT

• Napier CO, Mbadugha O, Bienenfeld LA, Doucette JT, Lucchini R, Luna-Sanchez S, de la Hoz RE. Obesity and weight gain among former World Trade Center workers and volunteers. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2017 Mar 4;72(2):106-110. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2016.1197174. Epub 2016 Jun 7.

  PMID: 27268046 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Miller GE, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC. Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Bronchodilator Response, and Incident Asthma in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2016 Dec 1;194(11):1383-1391. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201605-1067OC.

  PMID: 27548615 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Weber J, Xu D, Doucette JT, Liu X, Carson DA, Celedon JC. Chest CT scan findings in World Trade Center workers. Arch Environ Occup Health. 2019;74(5):263-270. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2018.1452712. Epub 2018 May 9.

  PMID: 29543564 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Jeon Y, Reeves AP, San Jose Estepar R, Liu X, Doucette JT, Celedon JC, Nolan A. Increased pulmonary artery diameter is associated with reduced FEV1 in former World Trade Center workers. Clin Respir J. 2019 Oct;13(10):614-623. doi: 10.1111/crj.13067. Epub 2019 Aug 19.

  PMID: 31347281 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Liu X, Celedon JC, Doucette JT, Jeon Y, Reeves AP, San Jose Estepar R. Association of Obesity with Quantitative Chest CT Measured Airway Wall Thickness in WTC Workers with Lower Airway Disease. Lung. 2019 Aug;197(4):517-522. doi: 10.1007/s00408-019-00246-z. Epub 2019 Jun 28.

  PMID: 31254057 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE. Occupational lower airway disease in relation to World Trade Center inhalation exposure. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2011 Apr;11(2):97-102. doi: 10.1097/ACI.0b013e3283449063.

  PMID: 21325944 RESULT

• Sigel KM, Xu D, Weber J, Wisnivesky JP, Celedon JC, de la Hoz RE. Prevalence of Pulmonary Nodules Detected by Computed Tomography in World Trade Center Rescue and Recovery Workers. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2020 Jan;17(1):125-128. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201907-517RL. No abstract available.

  PMID: 31499008 RESULT

• de la Hoz RE, Shapiro M, Nolan A, Celedon JC, Szeinuk J, Lucchini RG. Association of low FVC spirometric pattern with WTC occupational exposures. Respir Med. 2020 Aug-Sep;170:106058. doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106058. Epub 2020 Jun 7.

  PMID: 32843177 RESULT

• Sigel K, de la Hoz RE, Markowitz SB, Kong CY, Stone K, Todd AC, Wisnivesky JP. Lung cancer incidence among world trade center rescue and recovery workers. Cancer Med. 2022 Aug;11(16):3136-3144. doi: 10.1002/cam4.4672. Epub 2022 Mar 28.

  PMID: 35343066 DERIVED

Related Links

• Principal investigator's ORCID record
• Principal investigator's WTC-related bibliography
• Principal investigator's RePORT site for Study 24-00850
• Principal investigator's RePORT site for Study 12-00925
• Principal investigator's RePORT site for Study 18-00595

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; Lung Diseases, Interstitial; Lung Neoplasms

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Lung Diseases, Obstructive; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Chronic Disease; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Respiratory Tract Neoplasms; Thoracic Neoplasms; Neoplasms by Site; Neoplasms

Study Officials

• Rafael E. de la Hoz, MD, MPH, MSc

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 25, 2017
• First Posted: September 27, 2017
• Study Start: September 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): August 1, 2027
• Last Updated: May 6, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)