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Characterizing exposure of veterans to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam : final report /

The intent of the present report is to summarize briefly the work done by the contractor over the life of the study and to serve as a vehicle for cataloging and transmitting that work to VA. The sections below delineate the work of the Columbia University researchers as it evolved from proposal thro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington (DC) : National Academies Press, 2003.
Colección:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction and background
  • Contract summary
  • Project 1: military unit and herbicide spraying databases, and exposure assessment model development
  • Project 2: Covariates, confounders, and consistency: characterizing the Vietnam veteran for epidemiologic studies
  • Project 3: evaluation and standardization of military records for use in epidemiologic studies
  • Project 4: biomarkers of TCDD (dioxin) exposure in Vietnam veterans
  • Project 5: analysis of IARC tissue samples of selected Vietnamese for dioxin and dibenzofuran levels in archived adipose tissue
  • Findings, conclusions, and recommendations.