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Acute exposure was defined according to the earliest time of arrival (morning of 9\/11 versus later) at the WTC site, and chronic exposure was defined as duration (number of months) of WTC site\u2013related work. Rheumatologists were blinded with regard to each subject's exposure status. The conditional odds ratios (CORs) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for incident autoimmune disease were derived from exact conditional logistic regression models.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Rheumatoid arthritis was the most common autoimmune diagnosis (37% of subjects), followed by spondyloarthritis (22%), inflammatory myositis (14%), systemic lupus erythematosus (12%), systemic sclerosis (5%), Sj\u00f6gren's syndrome (5%), antiphospholipid syndrome (3%), and granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Wegener's) (2%). The COR for incident autoimmune disease increased by 13% (COR 1.13, 95% CI 1.02\u20131.26) for each additional month worked at the WTC site. These odds were independent of the association between high acute exposure (working during the morning of 9\/11) and disease outcome, which conveyed an elevated, but not statistically significant, risk (COR 1.85, 95% CI 0.86\u20133.89).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Prolonged work at the WTC site, independent of acute exposure, was an important predictor of post\u20109\/11 systemic autoimmune diseases. 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