People, who were present within the premises of World Trade Center, at the time it was attacked in 2001, have developed more chances of asthma as the general population, a new investigation of public health registry data has found.

The data from the World Trade Center Health Registry, tracks health effects two to three years after the attack. It conclude that three percent of adult residents and workers who were there at the time of attack, soon subsequently have developed asthma, two times the rate of fresh diagnosed asthma in the general population for the same span.

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