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Veterans and agent orange : update 2000 / Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent Orange--Health aspects.
- Agent Orange.
- Agent Orange--Toxicology.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Health risk assessment--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Dioxins--adverse effects.
- Environmental Exposure.
- Herbicides--adverse effects.
- Veterans.
- United States.
- Armed Conflicts.
- Vietnam.
- Medical Subjects:
- Dioxins--adverse effects.
- Environmental Exposure.
- Herbicides--adverse effects.
- Veterans.
- United States.
- Armed Conflicts.
- Vietnam.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 604 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 2000 examines the state of the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam. It is the fourth in a series of comprehensive reviews of epidemiologic and toxicologic studies of the agents used as defoliants during the Vietnam War. Over 40 health outcomes in veterans and their children are addressed.
- Among the report's conclusions is that there is sufficient evidence of a link between exposure and the development of soft-tissue sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and chloracne in veterans. Additionally, it found that scientific studies offer "limited or suggestive" evidence of an association with other diseases in veterans -- including Type 2 diabetes, respiratory cancers, prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, and some forms of transient peripheral neuropathy -- as well as the congenital birth defect spina bifida in veterans' children.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. D. Sergeant Pepper Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0309075521
- OCLC:
- 47013151
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