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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Assessment of Wartime Exposure to Herbicides in Vietnam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington (DC) : National Academies Press, 2003.
Series:Online access: NCBI NCBI Bookshelf.
Subjects:
1961-1975
Agent Orange > Health aspects.
Agent Orange > Toxicology.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Veterans > Health risk assessment > United States.
Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins > adverse effects
Environmental Exposure
Herbicides > adverse effects
Veterans Health
Vietnam Conflict
Agent Orange > Toxicologie.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 > Anciens combattants > Risques pour la santé > Évaluation > États-Unis.
Exposition (Toxicologie)
MEDICAL > Toxicology.
Agent Orange > Health aspects
Agent Orange > Toxicology
Veterans > Health risk assessment
United States
Vietnam
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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