Study Finds 9/11 Toxic Dust Linked to Heart Trouble Risk for Children
By Michael Barasch
A recent study indicates that exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs, contained in dust particles released into the homes of New Yorkers by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, seems to be associated with abnormally high cholesterol levels in young adults who were children at the time of the terrorist attacks.