Veterans and Agent Orange

Update 2000

Institute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update) (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

622 Seiten

2001
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-07552-7 (ISBN)

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Examines the state of the scientific evidence regarding associations between diseases and exposure to dioxin and other chemical compounds in herbicides used in Vietnam. This book addresses over forty health outcomes in veterans and their children.

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 forty 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.
Table of Contents

Front Matter
1 Executive Summary
2 Veterans and Agent Orange: Previous IOM Reports
3 Toxicology
4 Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence
5 Exposure Assessment
6 Epidemiologic Studies
7 Cancer
8 Reproductive Effects
9 Neurobehavioral Disorders
10 Other Health Effects
Appendix A: Summary of Workshop
Appendix B: ICD-9 Codes for Cancer Outcomes
Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies
Index

Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Third Biennial Update), Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

1 Front Matter; 2 1 Executive Summary; 3 2 Veterans and Agent Orange: Previous IOM Reports; 4 3 Toxicology; 5 4 Methodological Considerations in Evaluating the Evidence; 6 5 Exposure Assessment; 7 6 Epidemiologic Studies; 8 7 Cancer; 9 8 Reproductive Effects; 10 9 Neurobehavioral Disorders; 11 10 Other Health Effects; 12 Appendix A: Summary of Workshop; 13 Appendix B: ICD-9 Codes for Cancer Outcomes; 14 Appendix C: Committee and Staff Biographies; 15 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.12.2001
Verlagsort	Washington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Pharmakologie / Toxikologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Klinische Umweltmedizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-309-07552-1 / 0309075521
ISBN-13	978-0-309-07552-7 / 9780309075527
Zustand	Neuware